“ And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. ”
And if it be meet ... - If it be judged desirable and best. If my presence can further the object; or will satisfy you better; or will be deemed necessary to guide and aid those who may be sent,...
(2) And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. (2) The rest of the epistle is spent in writing of familiar matters, yet so that all things are referred to his purposed mark, that is to...
1 Corinthians 16. Various Business and Personal Matters. Salutation. First ( 1 Corinthians 16:1-4 ) he gives instructions as to the collection for the poor Christians at Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 8...
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And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. And if it be meet, etc. - If it be a business that requires my attendance, and it be judged proper for me to go to Jerusalem, I will take thos...
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And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. Meet - `worth while.' If your collections be large enough to be worth an apostle's journey (a stimulus to their liberality), I will ac...
The Collection. Personal Messages and Conclusion The Apostle in this chapter instructs the Corinthians to make a collection for the poor Christians in Judæa, intimates his intention of visiting th...
Chapter 25 THE POOR IN closing his letter to the Corinthians, Paul, as usual, explains his own movements, and adds a number of miscellaneous directions and salutations. These for the most part re...
Systematic Beneficence 1 Corinthians 16:1-12 It is remarkable that the Apostle can turn from one of his sublimest flights of sacred eloquence to deal with so ordinary a matter as the collection...
The last chapter of the epistle is local and personal. In the first sentences important principles are revealed as to the true method of Christian giving. It is to be regular and systematic rather th...
(1) Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. (2) Upon the first day of the week let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God h...
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 sho...
And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. Ver. 4. That I go also ] And go he did, Romans 15:25 ; Acts 24:17 . The very angels hold not themselves too good to serve the saints.
Upon the first day of the week So κατα μιαν σαββατων here signifies, the Hebrews using the numeral for the ordinal numbers, as Genesis 1:5 , The evening and the morning were one day; that is, t...
This last chapter forms a fourth division of the book of I Corinthians, with its simple, practical instructions. The unity of the body of Christ is to be expressed in genuine practical care for the n...
Contributions for the Poor. A. D. 57. 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I hav...
To encourage them to the more free and liberal contribution, he promiseth them himself to go along with those that carried it, if it were thought meet. Whether Paul, according to this promise, did go...
The Final Question. The Collection On Behalf Of God's Needy People (16:1-4). Illustrating the previous verse Paul now brings them down to practicalities. They had asked concerning the collecting o...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 16:1 . The collection .—Very fully dealt with in 2 Corinthians 8 , 9. Traceable thus; earlier, in Galatians 2:10 , Paul’s original pledge that he would “remember...
1 Corinthians 16:1 . The collection for the saints, chiefly for the poor ministers of the word. This was to be done once a week, and it is the ancient and best way for poor people to support the g...
Now concerning the collection. Collection in church This is in close connection with the sublime argument about the resurrection. There is no gulf between doctrine and duty; rather, most intima...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 16:1-46 Directions and arrangements. 1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints. "The saints" are here the poor Christians at Jerusa...
Concluding Admonitions. Regarding the collection for Jerusalem:
2 Corinthians 8:19 ; 2 Corinthians 8:4 ; Romans 15:25
The Postlude 1 Corinthians 16:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Final words are always listened to eagerly among friends. That is the reason we are calling the study for today, a postlude, because they...
They shall go with me — To remove any possible suspicion.