Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

Many

I would

Face to face

General references

Bible References

Many

John 16:12
“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

I would

3 John 1:13
I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink;

I trust

Romans 15:24
whenever I go to Spain—for I hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on my way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your company for a while—
1 Corinthians 16:5
But I will come to you after I go through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia;
Philemon 1:22
At the same time also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.
Hebrews 13:19
And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Face to face

Numbers 12:8
With him I speak mouth to mouth,
Even openly, and not in dark sayings,
And he beholds the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant, against Moses?”

That

John 15:11
These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
John 16:24
Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
John 17:13
But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.
2 Timothy 1:4
longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.
1 John 1:4
These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.

General references

Philippians 2:24
and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly.
3 John 1:13
I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink;