Key Verse Spotlight
1 Corinthians 16:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.”
1 Corinthians 16:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by {your} letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. {liberality: Gr. gift}
And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
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