18 Bible Verses about Absence

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we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

for if even in the flesh I am absent -- yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

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ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

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and of this being persuaded, I have known that I shall remain and continue with you all, to your advancement and joy of the faith,

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And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour -- in presence, not in heart -- did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,

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'But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;

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for I indeed, as being absent as to the body, and present as to the spirit, have already judged, as being present, him who so wrought this thing:

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

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Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

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And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you -- through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ -- who in presence, indeed am humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,

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This one -- let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, we are in deed.

From Thematic Bible

Aaron » Judges israel » absence » of moses

Exodus 24:14

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and unto the elders he hath said, 'Abide ye for us in this place, until that we turn back unto you, and lo, Aaron and Hur are with you -- he who hath matters doth come nigh unto them.'

Topics on Absence

Absence Of Feeling

Proverbs 23:35

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They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'

Absence Of Regret

Jeremiah 6:15

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They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah.

Absence Of Sex

Genesis 19:31

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And the first-born saith unto the younger, 'Our father is old, and a man there is not in the earth to come in unto us, as is the way of all the earth;

Absence Of Thought

Leviticus 5:4

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Or when a person sweareth, speaking wrongfully with the lips to do evil, or to do good, even anything which man speaketh wrongfully with an oath, and it hath been hid from him; -- when he hath known then he hath been guilty of one of these;