New Revised Standard Version
I do not want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.

Contemporary English Version
If the Lord lets me, I would rather come later for a longer visit than to stop off now for only a short visit.

New American Bible
For I do not wish to see you now just in passing, but I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.

For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.

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1 Corinthians 4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.

Proverbs 19:21 There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.

Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.

Acts 18:21 But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God willing, he departed from Ephesus.

Romans 1:10 Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.

James 4:15 For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and, If we shall live, we will do this or that.