1 Corinthians 16:7

7 I don't want to make a quick visit to you, since I hope to spend some time with you if the Lord lets it happen.

1 Corinthians 16:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 16:7

For I will not see you now by the way
Just to look upon them, and be gone, be like a wayfaring man that tarries but for a night:

but I trust to tarry a while with you;
the whole winter season:

if the Lord permit;
submitting all to the will of God, at whose sovereign disposal he always was, and at whose beck and command he desired to be, and to do nothing, or be any where, but what was agreeable to the will of God.

1 Corinthians 16:7 In-Context

5 I'll come to you after I go through Macedonia, and because I'm going through Macedonia,
6 I may stay with you or even spend the winter there in Corinth so that you can send me on my way to wherever I'm off to next.
7 I don't want to make a quick visit to you, since I hope to spend some time with you if the Lord lets it happen.
8 I'll stay here in Ephesus until the Festival of Pentecost.
9 In spite of the fact that there are many opponents, a big and productive opportunity has opened up for my mission here.
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