1 Corinthians 16:7

7 I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to stay a longer 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 I plan to go through Macedonia, so I will come to you after I go through there.

6 Perhaps I will stay with you for a time or even all winter. Then you can help me on my trip, wherever I go.

7 I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to stay a longer time with you if the Lord allows it.

8 But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

9 because a good opportunity for a great and growing work has been given to me now. And there are many people working against me.