1 Corinthians 16:7

7 I don't want to see you now while I am just passing through. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows it.

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 After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you. I will only be passing through Macedonia.

6 But I might stay with you for a while. I might even spend the winter. Then you can help me on my journey everywhere I go.

7 I don't want to see you now while I am just passing through. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows it.

8 But I will stay at Ephesus until the day of Pentecost.

9 A door has opened wide for me to do some good work here. There are many people who oppose me.