1 Corinthians 16:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.

1 Corinthians 16:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 8:19
And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
Romans 15:25
But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

Topics

Alms Beneficence Benevolence Charity Collection Giving Liberality Philanthropy

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. 4)

4. meet--“worth while.” If your collections be large enough to be worth an apostle’s journey (a stimulus to their liberality), I will accompany them myself instead of giving them letters credential (1Co 16:3; compare Ac 20:1-4). with me--to guard against all possible suspicion of evil (2Co 8:4, 19-21).