1 Corinthians 16:1-9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:1-4

In this chapter Paul closes this long epistle with some particular matters of less moment; but, as all was written by divine inspiration, it is all profitable for our instruction. He begins with directing them about a charitable collection on a particular occasion, the distresses and poverty of Christians in Judea, which at this time were extraordinary, partly through the general calamities of that nation and partly through the particular sufferings to which they were exposed. Now concerning... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:5-9

In this passage the apostle notifies and explains his purpose of visiting them, concerning which, observe, 1. His purpose: he intended to pass out of Asia, where he now was (vide 1 Cor. 16:8, 19) and to go through Macedonia into Achaia, where Corinth was, and to stay some time with them, and perhaps the winter, 1 Cor. 16:5, 6. He had long laboured in this church, and done much good among them, and had his heart set upon doing much more (if God saw fit), and therefore he had it in his thoughts... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 16:1-12

16:1-12 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 whatever his prosperity demands, so that there may be no need to take collections when I arrive. Whenever I arrive, I will send whoever you approve by letter to take your gifts to Jerusalem. If it is fitting for me to go, too, they will travel with me. I will come to you after I have passed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:1

Now concerning the collection for the saints ,.... Not at Corinth, but at Jerusalem, as appears from 1 Corinthians 16:3 for the poor saints there, who were reduced to poverty, either through the spoiling of their goods by their persecuting countrymen; or through the selling of their possessions, and putting their substance into one common stock, which was now exhausted, partly by their living upon it, and partly by the expending of it for the enlargement of the interest of Christ, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:2

Upon the first day of the week ,.... In an ancient copy of Beza's, and in some others, it is added, "the Lord's day". Upon some one first day of the week, or more, if there was a necessity for it, until the collection was finished; though the Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "every first day": but this is not the apostle's intention, that a collection should be made every first day, but only on some one day, or as long as it was necessary: for at the close of the verse he gives this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:3

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 persons to go with their collection; which approbation and choice they would signify by letters to the church, and principal men of it in Jerusalem, giving them a character as men of probity and faithfulness: them will I send . The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions join the phrase, "by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:4

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 should be worthy that I should go"; and the Arabic version, "if the thing should be worthy to go with me"; that is, their beneficence; if so large a collection should be made, that it will be worthy of an apostle to go along with it, hereby artfully pressing them to a good collection: they shall... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:5

Now I will come unto you ,.... Which he again assures them of, as being his real intention and design; though some had given out that he would not come to them any more, and hoped they should never see him any more; see 1 Corinthians 4:18 . When I shall pass through Macedonia ; hereby fixing the time when he intended to visit them after he had gone through that country, and had received their collections for the saints at Jerusalem, which the churches there so generously made, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:6

And it may be that I will abide ,.... He could not be certain what calls in Providence he might have to some other places, where his presence would be necessary: yea, and winter with you ; stay all winter with them, for the space of three months, as we read he did in Greece, Acts 20:1 . That ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go ; both by accompanying him in person themselves, in token of honour and respect, and by providing things necessary for his journey; see Acts... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 16:7

For I will not see you now by the way ,.... Just to look upon them, and be gone, be like a wayfaring man that tarries but for a night: but I trust to tarry a while with you ; the whole winter season: if the Lord permit ; submitting all to the will of God, at whose sovereign disposal he always was, and at whose beck and command he desired to be, and to do nothing, or be any where, but what was agreeable to the will of God. read more

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