Kehillah in Corinth I 16:7

7 For I do not want to see you now in passing, for I have the tikvah to remain some time with you, im yirtzeh Hashem (G-d willing, permitting).

Kehillah in Corinth I 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.

Kehillah in Corinth I 16:7 In-Context

5 And I will come to you whenever I pass through Macedonia, for I will be passing through Macedonia.

6 Efsher (perhaps) I will stay with you, or even spend the choref (winter) that you may help me with a send-off wherever I may go.

7 For I do not want to see you now in passing, for I have the tikvah to remain some time with you, im yirtzeh Hashem (G-d willing, permitting).

8 But, I will remain on in Ephesus until Shavuos [Lv 23:15-21; Dt 16:9-11],

9 For a delet (door) has opened, great and effective, for me, but there are many mitnaggedim (opponents).