1 Corinthians 16:4

4 And if it is worth while for me also to make the journey, they shall go as my companions.

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 On the first day of every week let each of you put on one side and store up at his home whatever gain has been granted to him; so that whenever I come, there may then be no collections going on.

3 And when I am with you, whatever brethren you accredit by letter I will send to carry your kind gift to Jerusalem.

4 And if it is worth while for me also to make the journey, they shall go as my companions.

5 I shall come to you after passing through Macedonia; for my plan will be to pass through Macedonia;

6 and I shall make some stay with you perhaps, or even spend the winter with you, in order that you may help me forward, whichever way I travel.