and if the household is worthy, let your peace be on it. But if it is unworthy, let your peace return to you.

But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.

If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Didn’t any return to give glory to God except this foreigner?”

Therefore He said: “A nobleman traveled to a far country to receive for himself authority to be king and then return.

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those slaves he had given the money to, so he could find out how much they had made in business.

Since He raised Him from the dead, never to return to decay, He has spoken in this way, I will grant you the faithful covenant blessings made to David.

After these things I will return
and rebuild David’s fallen tent.
I will rebuild its ruins
and set it up again,

But as for us, brothers, after we were forced to leave you for a short time (in person, not in heart), we greatly desired and made every effort to return and see you face to face.

How can we thank God for you in return for all the joy we experience before our God because of you,

If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return.

when He was reviled,
He did not revile in return;
when He was suffering,
He did not threaten
but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.