1 Corinthians 16:3

And when I come, those whom ye shall select, I will send with a letter, to carry your bounty to Jerusalem.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

In Context

2On each first day of the week, let every one of you lay aside and preserve at home, what he is able; that there may be no collections when I come.

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

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:19But I will come to you speedily, if God be willing: and I will know, not the speech of them who exalt themselves, but their power:

2 Corinthians 8:4they besought us, with much entreaty, that they might participate in the beneficence of the ministration to the saints.

2 Corinthians 8:18And we also sent with him that our brother, whose praise in the gospel is in all the churches;

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 16:2-5

Contributions for the Poor. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. 2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. 3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. 4 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. In this chapter Paul closes this long… Read the whole commentary →

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