1 Corinthians 16:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 16:3 —

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Acts 6:1-6
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. …
2 Corinthians 8:4
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
2 Corinthians 8:6
Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
1 Corinthians 4:19-21
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. …
1 Corinthians 11:34
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

Topics

Alms Beneficence Benevolence Charity Church Collection Congregation Dedication

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 tha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. approve by your letters--rather translate, “Whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters”: namely, letters to several persons at Jerusalem, which would be their credentials. There could be no need of letters from them before Paul’s coming, if the persons recommended were not to be sent off before it. Literally, “by letters”; an abbreviated expression for “I will send, recommending…