1 Corinthians 16:4

4 And if it is appropriate that I go also, they shall go with me.

1 Corinthians 16:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 16:4

And if it be meet that I go also
If it should be convenient for me to go, or it should be thought proper and expedient that I should go; or, as the Syriac version renders it, "if this work should be worthy that I should go"; and the Arabic version, "if the thing should be worthy to go with me"; that is, their beneficence; if so large a collection should be made, that it will be worthy of an apostle to go along with it, hereby artfully pressing them to a good collection:

they shall go with me;
that is, those brethren whom the church shall approve and send; for he would not go alone, nor propose it, to remove all suspicion of converting any money to his own use.

1 Corinthians 16:4 In-Context

2 Each first sabbath let each one of you set aside in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no collections when I come.

3 And when I come, whomever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

4 And if it is appropriate that I go also, they shall go with me.

5 Now I will come unto you, when I have passed through Macedonia, for I must pass through Macedonia.

6 And it may be that I will abide and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey wherever I go.