1 Corinthians 16:7

7 And I will not now see you in my passing [Soothly I will not now see you in passing], for I hope to dwell with you a while, if the Lord shall suffer.

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 But I shall come to you, when I shall pass by Macedonia; for why I shall pass by Macedonia.

6 But peradventure I shall dwell at you, or also dwell the winter, that ye lead me whither ever I shall go.

7 And I will not now see you in my passing [Soothly I will not now see you in passing], for I hope to dwell with you a while, if the Lord shall suffer.

8 But I shall dwell at Ephesus, unto Whitsuntide [till Whitsuntide].

9 For a great door and an open is opened to me [For why a great door and evident, or open, is opened to me], and many adversaries.