11 Bible Verses about Gone Away

But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called 'The Twin,' was not with them when Jesus came;

It is true that I am not with you in person, but I am with you in spirit, and am glad to see the good order and the unbroken front resulting from your faith in Christ.

So, on the next day, when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples either, they themselves got into the boats, and went to Capernaum to look for him.

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

For I myself, though absent in body, have been present with you in spirit, and in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already passed judgment, just as if I had been present, upon the man who has acted in this way.

And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord.

Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.

Now, I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ--I who, "in your presence, am humble in my bearing towards you, but, when absent, am bold in my language to you"--

Let such a man be assured of this--that our words in our letters show us to be, when absent, just what our deeds will show us to be, when present.

This is my reason for writing as I am now doing, while I am away from you, so that, when I am with you, I may not act harshly in the exercise of the authority which the Lord gave me--and gave me for building up and not for pulling down.

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.