The Collection for the Saints
1Now concerning1 ethe collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. 2On fthe first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, gas he may prosper, hso that there will be no collecting when I come. 3And when I arrive, I will send ithose whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem. 4If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.
Plans for Travel
5jI will visit you after passing through kMacedonia, for lI intend to pass through Macedonia, 6and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may mhelp me on my journey, wherever I go. 7For I do not want to see you now njust in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, oif the Lord permits. 8But I will stay in Ephesus until pPentecost, 9for qa wide door for effective work has opened to me, and rthere are many adversaries.
Footnotes
- 1 16:1 The expression Now concerning introduces a reply to a question in the Corinthians' letter; see 7:1; also verse 12
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Final Exhortations and Greetings 1 Corinthians 16:1–24 Series • ID: 14608Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.