so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
Here we have, I. St. Paul's desire of a share in the prayers of the Romans for him, expressed very earnestly, Rom 15:30-32. Though Paul was a great apostle, yet he begged the prayers of the meanest Christians, not here only, but in several other of the epistles. He had prayed much for them, and this he desires as the return of his kindness.
Commenting on Romans 15:30-33
That I may come unto you with joy,.... The end the apostle had, in desiring them to request the above things at the throne of grace for him, was, that he might come to them, which unless he was delivered from the unbelieving Jews, could not be; and therefore since they had an interest in this matter, he might hope they would be the more...
Verse 32. That I may come unto you. That I may not be impeded in my intended journey by opposition in Judea. With joy. Joy to myself in being permitted to come and producing joy to you by my presence. By the will of God. If God will; If God permit.