² On the first day of every week, each of you is to put aside and save whatever extra you earn, so that collections need not be taken when I come.^(A)

²⁵ At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem in a ministry to the saints,^{(A) 26} for Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to share their resources with the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.^{(B) 27} They were pleased to do this, and indeed they owe it to them, for if the gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material things.^{(C) 28} So, when I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected,^[a] I will set out by way of you to Spain,

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall this kingdom be left to another people. It shall crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,^(A)

¹⁸ Her merchandise and her wages will be dedicated to the Lord; her profits^[a] will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who live in the presence of the Lord.^(A)

²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.^{(A) 25} Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.^{(B) 26} People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.

²⁶ To everyone who conquers and continues to do my works to the end,