1 Corinthians 16:7

1 Corinthians 16:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
• New International Version (NIV)For I do not want to see you now and make only a passing visit; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For I do not wish to see you now on the way; but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Context of 1 Corinthians 16:7

5But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia. 6But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that ye may set me forward wheresoever I may go. For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit. 8But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost. 9For a great door is opened to me and an effectual [one], and [the] adversaries many.

1 Corinthians 16:7 word by word

οὐ θέλω γὰρ ὑμᾶς ἄρτι ἐν παρόδῳ ἰδεῖν· ἐλπίζω γὰρ χρόνον τινὰ ἐπιμεῖναι πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἐὰν ὁ κύριος ἐπιτρέψῃ.Read the interlinear

• seeὁράωhoraō · to see: seeG3708
• nowἄρτιarti · nowG737
• hopeἐλπίζωelpizō · to hope/expectG1679
• remainἐπιμένωepimenō · to remain/keep onG1961
• certainτιςtis · oneG5100
• timeχρόνοςchronos · timeG5550
• Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962
• permitἐπιτρέπωepitrepō · to permitG2010

Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 16:7

• 1 Corinthians 4:19but I will come quickly to you, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of those that are puffed up, but the power.
• Proverbs 19:21Many are the thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of Jehovah, that doth stand.
• Jeremiah 10:23I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.
• Acts 18:21but bade them farewell, saying, [I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem]; I will return to you again, if God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.
• Romans 1:10always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
• James 4:15instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 16:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7I will not see you now by the way - From Ephesus to Corinth was merely across the Aegean Sea, and comparatively a short passage.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7For I will not see you now by the way - On the way to Macedonia. Something had occurred to change his mind, and to induce him to go to Macedonia by another way. But I trust to tarry a while with you - That is, on my return from Macedonia, 1 Corinthians 16:5. Greek, “I hope to remain with you a little while. If the Lord permit - The apostle did not use the language of certainty and of confidence. He felt his dependence on God, and regarded all as under his…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7or even spend the winter: Paul evidently did visit during the winter (compare Acts 20:2–3).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-75-7. His first intention had been (2Co 1:15, 16) to pass through them (Corinth) to Macedonia, and again return to them from Macedonia, and so to Judea; this he had announced in the lost epistle (1Co 5:9); now having laid aside this intention (for which he was charged with levity, 2Co 1:17, &c., whereas it was through lenity, 2Co 1:23; 2:1), he announces his second plan of "not seeing them now by the way," but "passing through Macedonia" first on his way…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Corinthians 16:7

• Corinth
• Submission
• Will

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Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings