And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
Parallel translations
- WEB But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.
- BSB Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter, so that you can help me on my journey, wherever I go.
- NKJV And it may be that I will remain, or even spend the winter with you, that you may send me on my journey, wherever I go.
- NASB and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I go.
- NLT Perhaps I will stay awhile with you, possibly all winter, and then you can send me on my way to my next destination.
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Quick answer
Paul hopes to stay with them, perhaps for the winter, and be helped on his way. It matters because it reflects warm partnership between the apostle and the church.
Overview
Paul expresses hope for an extended stay, even wintering at Corinth, and being sent on with their support. This mutual fellowship shows the bonds of love and cooperation in gospel work. His plans depend on the church's partnership in his ongoing mission.
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- Acts 15:3And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
- Rom 15:24Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
- 3 Jn 1:6–7Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
- Acts 21:5And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
- Acts 17:15And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
- Titus 3:12When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
- 2 Cor 1:16And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
- 1 Cor 16:11Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
- Acts 27:12And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
- Acts 20:38Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.
- Acts 28:11And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
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