1 Corinthians 16:1-4
CONCLUDING ADMONITIONS. Regarding the collection for Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
CONCLUDING ADMONITIONS. Regarding the collection for Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, CONCERNING THE COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS, AS I HAVE GIVEN ORDER TO THE CHURCHES OF GALATIA, EVEN SO DO YE.... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK LET EVERY ONE OF YOU LAY BY HIM IN STORE AS GOD HATH PROSPERED HIM, THAT THERE BE NO GATHERINGS WHEN I COME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN I COME, WHOMSOEVER YE SHALL APPROVE BY YOUR LETTERS, THEM WILL I SEND TO BRING YOUR LIBERALITY UNTO JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF IT BE MEET THAT I GO ALSO, THEY SHALL GO WITH ME. That God is by no means indifferent to the manner in which the business end of a congregation's work is carried on is seen from this paragraph. While Paul was on his third missionary journey, he was busily engaged with the task of collecting m... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW I WILL COME UNTO YOU WHEN I SHALL PASS THROUGH MACEDONIA; FOR I DO PASS THROUGH MACEDONIA.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's proposed visit to Corinth:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT MAY BE THAT I WILL ABIDE, YEA, AND WINTER WITH YOU, THAT YE MAY BRING ME ON MY JOURNEY WHITHERSOEVER I GO.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I WILL NOT SEE YOU NOW BY THE WAY; BUT I TRUST TO TARRY A WHILE WITH YOU, IF THE LORD PERMIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I WILL TARRY AT EPHESUS UNTIL PENTECOST.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR A GREAT DOOR, AND EFFECTUAL, IS OPENED UNTO ME, AND THERE ARE MANY ADVERSARIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW IF TIMOTHEUS COME, SEE THAT HE MAY BE WITH YOU WITHOUT FEAR; FOR HE WORKETH THE WORK OF THE LORD, AS I ALSO DO.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NO MAN, THEREFORE, DESPISE HIM; BUT CONDUCT HIM FORTH IN PEACE THAT HE MAY COME UNTO ME; FOR I LOOK FOR HIM WITH THE BRETHREN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS TOUCHING OUR BROTHER APOLLOS, I GREATLY DESIRED HIM TO COME UNTO YOU WITH THE BRETHREN; BUT HIS WILL WAS NOT AT ALL TO COME AT THIS TIME; BUT HE WILL COME WHEN HE SHALL HAVE CONVENIENT TIME. Paul's former plan seems to have been to go to Corinth first, and then to travel northward into Macedonia.... [ Continue Reading ]
WATCH YE, STAND FAST IN THE FAITH, QUIT YOU LIKE MEN, BE STRONG... [ Continue Reading ]
A concluding exhortation:... [ Continue Reading ]
LET ALL YOUR THINGS BE DONE WITH CHARITY.... [ Continue Reading ]
I BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, (YE KNOW THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS, THAT IT IS THE FIRST-FRUITS OF ACHAIA, AND THAT THEY HAVE ADDICTED THEMSELVES TO THE MINISTRY OF THE SAINTS,)... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT YE SUBMIT YOURSELVES UNTO SUCH, AND TO EVERYONE THAT HELPETH WITH US AND LABORS.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM GLAD OF THE COMING OF STEPHANAS AND FORTUNATUS AND ACHAICUS; FOR THAT WHICH WAS LACKING ON YOUR PART THEY HAVE SUPPLIED.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY HAVE REFRESHED MY SPIRIT AND YOURS; THEREFORE ACKNOWLEDGE YE THEM THAT ARE SUCH. According to his custom, the apostle here gives the gist of all his admonitions in a few brief sentences. The unusual and abundant gifts of grace which the Lord had given to the congregation at Corinth had prod... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHURCHES OF ASIA SALUTE YOU. AQUILA AND PRISCILLA SALUTE YOU MUCH IN THE LORD, WITH THE CHURCH THAT IS IN THEIR HOUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Final greetings:... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE BRETHREN GREET YOU. GREET YE ONE ANOTHER WITH AN HOLY KISS.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SALUTATION OF ME, PAUL, WITH MINE OWN HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN LOVE NOT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, LET HIM BE ANATHEMA MARANATHA.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU!... [ Continue Reading ]
MY LOVE BE WITH YOU ALL IN CHRIST JESUS. AMEN. In closing his letter, Paul sends greetings, first of all, from the congregations in Asia, the Roman province on the Aegean Sea. Although he had not personally visited all the congregations that had been founded in the province and in the district of wh... [ Continue Reading ]