1 Corinthians 16

¹Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so do ye do also.

²On [the] first of [the] week let each of you put by at home, laying up [in] whatever [degree] he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come.

³And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem:

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

⁵But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia.

⁶But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that ye may set me forward wheresoever I may go.

⁷For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.

⁸But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost.

⁹For a great door is opened to me and an effectual [one], and [the] adversaries many.

¹⁰Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I.

¹¹Let not therefore any one despise him; but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

¹²Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all [his] will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.

Be vigilant; stand fast in the faith; quit yourselves like men; be strong.