1 Corinthians 16:7-9

New Century Version

⁷ I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to stay a longer time with you if the Lord allows it. ⁸ But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost, ⁹ because a good opportunity for a great and growing work has been given to me now. And there are many people working against me.