King James Version
1 Corinthians 16:5 in the King James Version says “Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.” — study this verse from 1 Corinthians chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.”
1 Corinthians 16:5 · KJV
And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. liberality: Gr. gift
And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I will come”
G2064to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“unto”
G4314a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e., toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e., pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of,
“when”
G3752whenever (implying hypothesis or more or less uncertainty); also causatively (conjunctionally) inasmuch as
“for”
G1063properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
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