1 Corintios 16:5

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Los visitaré después de haber ido a Macedonia,
pues estoy pensando pasar por Macedonia.

1 Corintios 16:5 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 16:5

Now I will come unto you
Which he again assures them of, as being his real intention and design; though some had given out that he would not come to them any more, and hoped they should never see him any more; see ( 1 Corinthians 4:18 1 Corinthians 4:19 ) .

When I shall pass through Macedonia;
hereby fixing the time when he intended to visit them after he had gone through that country, and had received their collections for the saints at Jerusalem, which the churches there so generously made, and pressed him to the ministering of, of which he speaks in his next epistle.

For I do pass through Macedonia;
not that he was then passing through Macedonia, or was in it, and so at Philippi, from whence this epistle is said to be written, as the subscription at the end of it expresses, for he was now at Ephesus; see ( 1 Corinthians 16:8 ) and from thence was this epistle written; he was not in Macedonia till some time after, see ( 2 Corinthians 2:12 2 Corinthians 2:13 ) but the sense is, that he should take his tour through Macedonia; and so the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "for I shall pass through Macedonia"; and so coming into Greece, he intended to come to Corinth, and stay some time with them.

1 Corintios 16:5 In-Context

3 Cuando yo vaya, escribiré cartas de recomendación para los mensajeros que ustedes escojan como encargados de entregar su ofrenda en Jerusalén;

4 y si parece oportuno que yo también vaya, ellos pueden viajar conmigo.

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Los visitaré después de haber ido a Macedonia,
pues estoy pensando pasar por Macedonia.

6 Tal vez me quede un tiempo con ustedes, quizá todo el invierno, y después podrán enviarme a mi próximo destino.

7 Esta vez no quiero hacerles una visita corta nada más y luego seguir mi viaje. Deseo ir y quedarme un tiempo si el Señor me lo permite.