And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
Ver. 3. Your liberality] Gr. your grace; that which having received of God's free grace you do as freely part with to his poor people.
Verse 1 Corinthians 16:3. _WHOMSOEVER YE SHALL APPROVE BY_ your _letters_] Why should Paul require _letters_ of approbation in behalf of certain persons, when he himself should be _among them_, and c...
WHOMSOEVER YE SHALL APPROVE BY YOUR LETTERS - There has been great variety of opinion in regard to the proper construction of this verse. Macknight supposes that the “letters” here referred to were no...
2. EXHORTATIONS AND CONCLUSION. CHAPTER 16 _ 1. Concerning Collections. (1 Corinthians 16:1)_ 2. Ministry. (1 Corinthians 16:5) 3. Greetings. (1 Corinthians 16:19
1 CORINTHIANS 16. VARIOUS BUSINESS AND PERSONAL MATTERS. SALUTATION. First (1 Corinthians 16:1) he gives instructions as to the collection for the poor Christians at Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 8 f.*, Ro...
With regard to the collection for the people of Christ, do you too follow the instructions which I gave to the Churches of Galatia. Every first day of the week each of you must put by and save up what...
PRACTICAL PLANS (1 Corinthians 16:1-12)...
APPROVE. Greek. _dokimazo_ See 1Co 3:13. 1 Corinthians 11:28. BY (App-104. 1 Corinthians 16:1), &c. Read, "them will. send with letters". THEM. these. SEND. App-174. BRING. carry away. Greek. _apop...
_whomsoever you shall approve by_your _letters_ The word _your_is not in the original. The passage may be translated in two ways; (1) as in the text, which follows Tyndale and the Vulgate, and suppose...
ΔΙ' ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΩ͂Ν. Most modern editors punctuate so as to connect δι' ἐπιστολῶν with what follows. So Chrysostom, and also Wiclif. St Paul would give letters of commendation (cf. Acts 18:27; Romans 16:1;...
1 Corinthians 16:1-24. SUNDRY PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS. CONCLUSION...
_THE COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS -- 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1-4:_ A terrible famine was taking place in Judea. (Acts 11:27-30) Many of the Christians there found themselves in deep poverty. This situation last...
ΠΑΡΑΓΈΝΩΜΑΙ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΑΡΑΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G3854) прибывать. _Conj._ с ΌΤΑΝ (G3752) в indef. _temp. прид._, "когда бы я ни прибыл" (RWP). ΟΥΣ ΈΆΝ (G3739; G1437) кого бы ни (pi.), ΔΟΚΙΜΆΣΗΤ...
AND WHEN I COME, &C.— _When I come, whomsoever you shall approve, them will I send with letters, to carry your liberality,_ &c. Locke. The Apostle's sense justifies the present manner of reading; he t...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Endow (1 Corinthians 16:1-9) 16 Now concerning the contribution for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. 2On the first day of every w...
And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. APPROVE BY YOUR LETTERS - rather, 'whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I s...
40 There is no direct statement here that our bodies will be changed to celestial bodies, in accord with the later revelation of Ephesians, but such an inference would be in point. Even among the cele...
16:3 letters (a-15) It may be read 'whomsoever ye shall approve by letters, I will send them to carry,' &c....
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 them a...
BY _your_ LETTERS] of commendation to the Christians at Jerusalem: cp. 2 Corinthians 3:1; Delegates would go from Corinth to avoid all suspicion of misappropriation of the money (2 Corinthians 8:19)....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 PLANS ABOUT THE MONEY FOR JERUSALEM 16:1-4 V1 Now I will write about the money for God’s people. Do what I told the churches in Galatia...
WHOMSOEVER YE SHALL APPROVE BY YOUR LETTERS. — Better, _whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send by letters to bring your gifts to Jerusalem._ The Apostle had not made up his mind finally whether...
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 relate...
The Cor [2616] are to choose delegates to bear their bounty, who will travel to Jerus. with P., if this be deemed fit. Acts 20:1-4 shows that in the event a large number of representatives of Gentile...
§ 57. CONCERNING THE COLLECTION. During his Third Missionary Journey P. was collecting money for the relief of the Christian poor in Jerusalem. Two chaps. in the middle of 2 Cor. are devoted to this b...
SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE 1 Corinthians 16:1 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. But, af...
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 tha...
The Collection For the Saints Paul next gave directions concerning what appears to be the same collection mentioned in Romans 15:26-27. Some Jewish converts had been responsible for teaching Gentiles....
And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by [your] (c) letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. (c) Which you will give to them to carry....
“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 each one of you lay by him in store, as he hath prospe...
(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 ha...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
3._And when I come _As we are cheerful in giving, when we know for certain, that what we give is well laid out, he points out to the Corinthians a method, by which they may be assured of a good and fa...
The apostle, in his letter, had treated of the disorder that reigned among these believers, and his spirit was to a certain degree relieved by fulfilling this duty towards them; for, after all, they w...
AND WHEN I COME,.... To Corinth, as he intended very quickly: WHOMSOEVER YOU SHALL APPROVE BY YOUR LETTERS; that is, such persons as this church should approve, and choose, and fix upon as proper per...
_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, the f...
BY-LETTERS; this may mean letters from the brethren at Corinth, or letters by Paul, commending the messengers to his friends at Jerusalem....
CONCLUDING ADMONITIONS. Regarding the collection for Jerusalem:...
AND WHEN I COME, WHOMSOEVER YE SHALL APPROVE BY YOUR LETTERS, THEM WILL I SEND TO BRING YOUR LIBERALITY UNTO JERUSALEM....
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 ne...
LIBERALITY: _ Gr._ gift...
AND WHEN. ARRIVE, WHOMSOEVER YE SHALL APPROVE, THEM WILL. SEND WITH LETTERS TO CARRY YOUR BOUNTY UNTO JERUSALEM: 'And when. arrive' -(1 Corinthians 4:19) 'WHOMSOEVER YE SHALL APPROVE' -'to the perso...
1-9 The good examples of other Christians and churches should rouse us. It is good to lay up in store for good uses. Those who are rich in this world, should be rich in good works, 1 Timothy 6:17; 1...
The word here translated _liberality, _ is the same which signifieth grace; their charity is called by that name, either because it flowed from their free love towards their poor brethren, (though liv...
And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem :...
1 Corinthians 16:3 And G1161 when G3752 come G3854 (G5638) whomever G3739 G1437 G5128 approve G1381 ...
'On the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. And when I arrive, whoever you shall approve, them will I send with l...
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 of m...
_Collection for the Poor Saints at Jerusalem,_ 1-4. The occasion of this “collection” was the “great dearth” which a Christian prophet who came from Jerusalem to Antioch predicted would come upon the...
WHEN I ARRIVE (οταν παραγενωμα). Whenever I arrive, indefinite temporal conjunction οταν and second aorist middle subjunctive.WHOMSOEVER YE SHALL APPROVE BY LETTERS (ους εαν δοκιμασητε δι' επιστολ...
CONTENTS: Closing instructions and greetings of Paul. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, Apollos, Aquila, Priscilla, Stephanas, Fortunatus, Achaicus. CONCLUSION: The Christian should lay by money in...
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 gosp...
AFTER I COME. Note the Corinthians were to choose their own men to take this gift to Jerusalem. _MacKnight_ thinks the _letters of introduction_ were written by the church at Corinth. Since the money...
_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 intimate...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1 The Collection for the Saints and Travel Plans. Paul explains how his future ministry will involve the Corinthians....
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 16:3 Paul would SEND the money with several representatives chosen by the Corinthian church. He took care to prevent even an appearance of misuse of funds....
CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _Now concerning the collection for the saints._ The saints here meant were the poor Christians living at Jerusalem. Cf. ver. 3 and Romans 15:26. For the Christians at Jerusalem, as...
_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 the poor,
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1 _Directions and arrangements._ 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1 NOW CONCERNING THE COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS. "The saints" are here the poor Christians at Jerusalem ...
And so he writing to them now about taking up a collection for the saints [that are in Jerusalem], as he asked also the churches in the area of Galatia. Now he said on the first day of the week (1 Cor...
1 Corinthians 11:34; 1 Corinthians 4:19; 2 Corinthians 8:19; 2 Corinthians 8:19;...
Approve by your letters. So A. V. and Rev. Others, however, connect by letters with will I send, making the letters to be Paul's introduction to the church at Jerusalem. The latter is preferable. The...
THE POSTLUDE 1 Corinthians 16:1 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 are the...