1 Corinthians 16:9
For a great and effective door has opened to me, and yet there are many who are hostile.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
In Context
8But I will remain at Ephesus until Pentecost.
Cross References
Acts 19:8And after entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly for three months, discoursing and persuading the things about the kingdom of God.
2 Corinthians 1:8For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.
Philippians 3:18For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ,
Revelation 3:7And to the agent of the congregation in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens, and none will shut it except he who opens, and none will open:
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 16:6-10
Paul Promises to Visit Corinth. ( a. d. 57.) 5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia. 6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. 7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit. 8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. 9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. In this passage the apostle… Read the whole commentary →