1 Corinthians 16:3
Good News Translation
After I come, I shall give letters of introduction to those you have approved, and send them to take your gift to Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
And when I arrive, I will send any whom you approve with letters to take your gift to Jerusalem.

Contemporary English Version
Choose some followers to take the money to Jerusalem. I will send them on with the money and with letters which show that you approve of them.

New American Bible
And when I arrive, I shall send those whom you have approved with letters of recommendation to take your gracious gift to Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.

when.

1 Corinthians 4:19-21 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power. . . .

1 Corinthians 11:34 If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.

whomsoever.

Acts 6:1-6 And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:19-24 And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches companion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us, to the glory of the Lord and our determined will: . . .

liberality.

2 Corinthians 8:4,6,19 With much entreaty begging of us the grace and communication of the ministry that is done toward the saints. . . .

Context
The Collection for the Saints
2On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made. 3And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem. 4And if it be meet that I also go, they shall go with me.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 16:4
And if it be meet that I also go, they shall go with me.

2 Corinthians 3:1
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need (as some do) epistles of commendation to you, or from you?

2 Corinthians 8:18
We have sent also with him the brother whose praise is in the gospel through all the churches.

2 Corinthians 8:19
And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches companion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us, to the glory of the Lord and our determined will:

1 Corinthians 16:2
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