7For 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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But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
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.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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…
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