Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7. So that ye come behind in no gift ̔Υστερεισθαι means to be in want of what you would otherwise stand in need of. The word is used in this sense in the following passages: Luke 15:14; 2 Corinthians 11:9; Philippians 4:12; and Hebrews 11:37. The proper meaning is — to come too late for a thing, and so miss of it. Xenophon uses it in this sense.
We have here the apostle's preface to his whole epistle, in which we may take notice, I. Of the inscription, in which, according to the custom of writing letters then, the name of the person by whom it was written and the persons to whom it was written are both inserted. 1.
Commenting on 1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Verse 7. So that. God has so abundantly endowed you with his favours. Ye come behind. υστερεισθαι. You are not wanting, or deficient. The word is usually applied to destitution, want, or poverty; and the declaration here is synonymous with what he had said, , that they abounded in everything. In no gift. In no favour, or gracious endowment.