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1 Corinthians 16:8
1 Corinthians 16:8 is verse 8 of 1 Corinthians chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
That is, Shavuot, the late spring feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; it is also known as the Feast of Harvest (see Exodus 23:16) or the Feast of Weeks (see Exodus 34:22).
King James Version
But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
World English Bible
But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,
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1 Corinthians 16:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter, so that you can help me on my journey, wherever I go.
7 For I do not want to see you now only in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
8 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
9 because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.
10 If Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, just as I am.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 15:32If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Exodus 23:16You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
Leviticus 23:15From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
Leviticus 23:16You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:17Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:18Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:19You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.
Leviticus 23:20The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
Leviticus 23:21On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
Acts 2:1When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.