1 Corinthians 16:7

7 For I desire not to see you now in passing, but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permits.

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 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.

7 For I desire not to see you now in passing, but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permits.

8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

9 For a great and effectual door is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.