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Good News Translation

1 Corinthians 16:4

If it seems worthwhile for me to go, then they can go along with me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alms;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Paul;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Collection;   Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Paul;   Romans, the Epistle to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Collection for the Poor Saints;   Community of Goods;   Contribution for the Saints;   Paul;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Collection;   Discipline;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Alms;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Meet;   Trophimus;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
If it seems good for me to go too, we can all travel together.
Revised Standard Version
If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And yf it be mete yt I goo they shall go with me.
Hebrew Names Version
If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.
New American Standard Bible
and if it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.
New Century Version
and if it seems good for me to go also, they will go along with me.
Update Bible Version
and if it is meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if it be proper that I should go also, they shall go with me.
English Standard Version
If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.
World English Bible
If it is appropriate for me to go also, they will go with me.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And if it be proper, that I also should go, they shall go with me.
Weymouth's New Testament
And if it is worth while for me also to make the journey, they shall go as my companions.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That if it be worthi that also Y go, thei schulen go with me.
English Revised Version
and if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.
Berean Standard Bible
And if it is advisable for me to go also, they can travel with me.
Contemporary English Version
If you think I should go along, they can go with me.
Amplified Bible
and if it is fitting for me to go too, they will accompany me.
American Standard Version
and if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.
Bible in Basic English
And if it is possible for me to go there, they will go with me.
Complete Jewish Bible
If it seems appropriate that I go too, they will go along with me.
Darby Translation
and if it be suitable that *I* also should go, they shall go with me.
International Standard Version
If it is worthwhile for me to go, too, they can go with me.2 Corinthians 8:4,19;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But if it be a fit work that I too go (thither), they also shall go with me.
Murdock Translation
And if it should be suitable that I also go, they shall go with me.
King James Version (1611)
And if it be meet that I goe also, they shall goe with me.
New Living Translation
And if it seems appropriate for me to go along, they can travel with me.
New Life Bible
If I can go, they can go with me.
New Revised Standard
If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And if it be meete that I goe also, they shall goe with me.
George Lamsa Translation
And if it is right that I go also, they shall go with me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if it be meet that, I also, be journeying, with me, shall they journey.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And if it be meet that I also go, they shall go with me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yf it be meete that I go also, they shall go with me.
Christian Standard Bible®
If it is suitable for me to go as well, they will travel with me.
King James Version
And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
Lexham English Bible
And if it is worthwhile for me to go also, they will travel with me.
Literal Translation
And if it is suitable for me to go also, they shall go with me.
Young's Literal Translation
and if it be meet for me also to go, with me they shall go.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles yf it be mete that I go thither also, they shal go with me.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and if it be so considerable as to induce me to go, they shall accompany me.
New English Translation
And if it seems advisable that I should go also, they will go with me.
New King James Version
But if it is fitting that I go also, they will go with me.
Simplified Cowboy Version
If God wills it, I will even accompany them there.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and if it is fitting for me to go also, they will go with me.
Legacy Standard Bible
and if it is fitting for me to go also, they will go with me.

Contextual Overview

1 Now, concerning what you wrote about the money to be raised to help God's people in Judea. You must do what I told the churches in Galatia to do. 2 Every Sunday each of you must put aside some money, in proportion to what you have earned, and save it up, so that there will be no need to collect money when I come. 3 After I come, I shall give letters of introduction to those you have approved, and send them to take your gift to Jerusalem. 4 If it seems worthwhile for me to go, then they can go along with me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 15:25, 2 Corinthians 8:4, 2 Corinthians 8:19

Reciprocal: Acts 11:30 - by

Cross-References

Genesis 16:4
Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she found out that she was pregnant, she became proud and despised Sarai.
Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "It's your fault that Hagar despises me. I myself gave her to you, and ever since she found out that she was pregnant, she has despised me. May the Lord judge which of us is right, you or me!"
Genesis 16:6
Abram answered, "Very well, she is your slave and under your control; do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so cruelly that she ran away.
Genesis 16:8
and said, "Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress."
2 Samuel 6:16
As the Box was being brought into the city, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and jumping around in the sacred dance, and she was disgusted with him.
Proverbs 30:23
a hateful woman who gets married, and a servant woman who takes the place of her mistress.
1 Corinthians 4:6
For your sake, my friends, I have applied all this to Apollos and me, using the two of us as an example, so that you may learn what the saying means, "Observe the proper rules." None of you should be proud of one person and despise another.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if it be meet that I go also,.... If it should be convenient for me to go, or it should be thought proper and expedient that I should go; or, as the Syriac version renders it, "if this work should be worthy that I should go"; and the Arabic version, "if the thing should be worthy to go with me"; that is, their beneficence; if so large a collection should be made, that it will be worthy of an apostle to go along with it, hereby artfully pressing them to a good collection:

they shall go with me; that is, those brethren whom the church shall approve and send; for he would not go alone, nor propose it, to remove all suspicion of converting any money to his own use.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And if it be meet ... - If it be judged desirable and best. If my presence can further the object; or will satisfy you better; or will be deemed necessary to guide and aid those who may be sent, I will be willing to go also. For some appropriate and valuable remarks in regard to the apostle Paul’s management of pecuniary matters, so as not to excite suspicion, and to preserve a blameless reputation, see Paley’s Horae Paulinae, chapter iv. No. 1, 3. Note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 16:4. And if it be meet, c.] If it be a business that requires my attendance, and it be judged proper for me to go to Jerusalem, I will take those persons for my companions. On the delicacy with which St. Paul managed the business of a collection for the poor, Archdeacon Paley makes the following appropriate remarks:-

"The following observations will satisfy us concerning the purity of our apostle's conduct in the suspicious business of a pecuniary contribution.

"1st. He disclaims the having received any inspired authority for the directions which he is giving: 'I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.' (2 Corinthians 8:8.) Who, that had a sinister purpose to answer by the recommending of subscriptions, would thus distinguish, and thus lower the credit of his own recommendation?

"2d. Although he asserts the general right of Christian ministers to a maintenance from their ministry, yet he protests against the making use of this right in his own person: 'Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel but I have used none of these things; neither have I written these things that it should be so done unto me; for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying, i.e. my professions of disinterestedness, void.' (1 Corinthians 9:14; 1 Corinthians 9:15.)

"3d. He repeatedly proposes that there should be associates with himself in the management of the public bounty; not colleagues of his own appointment, but persons elected for that purpose by the contributors themselves. 'And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem; and if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.' (1 Corinthians 16:3; 1 Corinthians 16:4.) And in the second epistle, what is here proposed we find actually done, and done for the very purpose of guarding his character against any imputation that might be brought upon it in the discharge of a pecuniary trust: 'And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the Gospel throughout all the Churches; and not that only, but who was also chosen of the Churches to travel with us with this grace, (gift,) which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and the declaration of your ready mind: avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us; providing for things honest, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men:' i.e. not resting in the consciousness of our own integrity, but, in such a subject, careful also to approve our integrity to the public judgment. (2 Corinthians 8:18-21.") Horae Paulinae, page 95.


 
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