18 Bible Verses about Absence
Most Relevant Verses
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
Ye have heard that I said to you, I go away, and come again to you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go to the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I depart; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to you.
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have 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 labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted by him.
Only let your manner of life be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Now I Paul myself beseech you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold towards you:
Let such one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
From Thematic Bible
Aaron » Judges israel » absence » of moses
And he said to the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again to you: and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man hath any matters to do, let him come to them.
Topics on Absence
Absence Of Feeling
Proverbs 23:35They have stricken me, wilt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Absence Of Regret
Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Absence Of Sex
Genesis 19:31And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:
Absence Of Thought
Leviticus 5:4Or if a soul shall swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it may be, that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
Hope, Results Of Its Absence
Job 17:13-15If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness.