17 Bible Verses about Absence
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For though I am absent from you in person I am with you in spirit, and I am glad to observe your harmony and the solidity of your faith in Christ.
You have heard me say that I am going away and am coming back to you; if you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,
I am convinced of this, and so I know that I shall stay on and serve you all, to help you to develop and to be glad in your faith.
For our part, brothers, when we were separated from you for a little while??n person, though not in spirit??e were extremely eager and longed intensely to see you.
Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.
For my part, though I have been absent from you in person, I have been present with you in spirit, and as thus present I have already passed judgment upon the man who has done this,
So, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient, with reverence and awe make every effort to insure your salvation, not simply as though I were with you, but all the more because I am away.
So whether I am at home or away from it, it is my ambition to please him.
Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.
I appeal to you personally, by the gentleness and forbearance of Christ??he Paul who is so humble when face to face with you, but so bold in dealing with you when he is far away!
Such people had better understand that when I arrive and take action I will do just as I say I will in my letters when I am far away.
Topics on Absence
Absence Of Feeling
Ephesians 4:19for they have become callous, and abandoned themselves to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of vice.
Absence Of Regret
1 Corinthians 5:1-2Immorality is actually notorious among you, and immorality of a kind unknown even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife.
Absence Of Sex
Matthew 1:25But he did not live with her as a husband until she had had a son, and he named the child Jesus.
Absence Of Thought
1 Corinthians 14:14For if I pray ecstatically, it is my spirit that prays, but my mind is helping nobody.
Hope, Results Of Its Absence
2 Corinthians 1:8For I do not want you, brothers, to misunderstand the distress that I experienced in Asia, for I was so utterly and unendurably crushed, that I actually despaired of life itself.
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