World English Bible

1 Corinthians 16:7

“For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.”

Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 16

But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

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