Forasmuch, brethren, as we are kept from you for a season, as concerning the bodily presence - but not in the heart - we enforced the more to see you personally with great desire,

For I, verily, as absent in body, even so present in spirit, have determined already - as though I were present - of him that hath done this deed;

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I present with you in the spirit, joying and beholding the order that ye keep, and your steadfast faith in Christ.

And now, though thou wentest thy way because thou longest after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?"

And Israel said, "I have enough, if Joseph my son be yet alive: I will go and see him, yer that I die."

And Israel said unto Joseph, "I had not thought to have seen thy face, and yet lo, God hath showed it me and also thy seed."

And by that time, the king turned his mind from pursuing Absalom. For he had left mourning for the death of Amnon.

And he said, "Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned and came of his chariot against thee? Is it a time to receive silver and to receive garments, olive trees, vineyards, oxen, sheep, menservants and maidservants?

{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is.

And he said unto them, "I have inwardly desired to eat this Easter lamb with you before that I suffer.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul, and Silas by night unto Berea. Which, when they were come thither, they entered into the Synagogue of the Jews.

I would that ye should know, brethren, how that I have oftentimes purposed to come unto you, but have been let hitherto, to have some fruit among you, as I have among other of the gentiles.

but now seeing I have no more to do in these countries, and also have been desirous many years to come unto you,

If it chance me to live in the flesh, that is to me fruitful for to work, and what to choose I know not.

But now lately when Timothy came from you unto us and declared to us your faith, and your love, and how that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we desire to see you.

while we night and day pray exceedingly, that we might see you presently, and might fulfill that which is lacking in your faith.

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But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

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In presence

And he said, "Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned and came of his chariot against thee? Is it a time to receive silver and to receive garments, olive trees, vineyards, oxen, sheep, menservants and maidservants?
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul, and Silas by night unto Berea. Which, when they were come thither, they entered into the Synagogue of the Jews.
For I, verily, as absent in body, even so present in spirit, have determined already - as though I were present - of him that hath done this deed;
For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I present with you in the spirit, joying and beholding the order that ye keep, and your steadfast faith in Christ.

Endeavoured

But now lately when Timothy came from you unto us and declared to us your faith, and your love, and how that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we desire to see you.
And now, though thou wentest thy way because thou longest after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?"
And Israel said, "I have enough, if Joseph my son be yet alive: I will go and see him, yer that I die."
And Israel said unto Joseph, "I had not thought to have seen thy face, and yet lo, God hath showed it me and also thy seed."
And by that time, the king turned his mind from pursuing Absalom. For he had left mourning for the death of Amnon.
{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is.
And he said unto them, "I have inwardly desired to eat this Easter lamb with you before that I suffer.
I would that ye should know, brethren, how that I have oftentimes purposed to come unto you, but have been let hitherto, to have some fruit among you, as I have among other of the gentiles.
but now seeing I have no more to do in these countries, and also have been desirous many years to come unto you,
If it chance me to live in the flesh, that is to me fruitful for to work, and what to choose I know not.
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