1 Corinthians 16:7

7 For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.

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 Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia.

6 And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter: that you may bring me on my way whithersoever I shall go.

7 For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.

8 But I will tarry at Ephesus, until Pentecost.

9 For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many adversaries.