² On the first day of every week,^(A) each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.^(B)

²⁵ Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem^(A) in the service^(B) of the Lord’s people^(C) there. ²⁶ For Macedonia^(D) and Achaia^(E) were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem.^{(F) 27} They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings.^{(G) 28} So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain^(H) and visit you on the way.

The Lord Will Appear

⁴⁴ “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush^(A) all those kingdoms^(B) and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.^(C)

¹⁸ Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord;^(A) they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord,^(B) for abundant food and fine clothes.^(C)

²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.^{(A) 25} On no day will its gates^(B) ever be shut,^(C) for there will be no night there.^{(D) 26} The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.^(E)