18 Bible Verses about Absence
Most Relevant Verses
and are well pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet in the spirit I am with you, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
Ye heard me say to you, I am going away, and am coming again to you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced that I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and lest I too shall be found by you such as ye would not; lest there be wranglings, envying, wraths, rivalries, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
And being persuaded of this, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your advancement and joy in your faith,
But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you for a short time, separated in body, not in heart, used the greater endeavors with much earnestness to see your face.
But I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I depart. For if I do not depart, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
For I, for my part, though absent in the body, yet present in the spirit have already determined, as if I were present with you, respecting him who thus wrought this deed,
So then, my beloved, as ye always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
Wherefore we also strive that, whether at home or absent, we may be approved by him.
Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or remain absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I, who present indeed am lowly among you, but am bold toward you when absent;
Let such a one count upon this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such will we be also in deed when present.
Topics on Absence
Absence Of Feeling
Ephesians 4:19who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness.
Absence Of Regret
1 Corinthians 5:1-2It is everywhere reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife.
Absence Of Sex
Matthew 1:25and he knew her not till she had brought forth a son: and he called his name Jesus.
Absence Of Thought
1 Corinthians 14:14For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Hope, Results Of Its Absence
2 Corinthians 1:8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our distress which came upon us in Asia, that it was exceedingly heavy upon us beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;
