1 Corinthians 16:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 For I do not wish to see you now just in passing, but I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.(A) 8 [a]I shall stay in Ephesus(B) until Pentecost, 9 because a door has opened for me wide and productive for work, but there are many opponents.(C)
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- 16:8 In Ephesus until Pentecost: this tells us the place from which he wrote the letter and suggests he may have composed it about Easter time (cf. 1 Cor 5:7–8).
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