26 Bible Verses about In Men's Presence

to sell me Machpelah Cave. It is near the edge of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for its full price here in your presence. Then I can own it as a burial ground.

Ephron was sitting with the other Hittites at the meeting place at the city gate. He answered in the hearing of everyone there:

Hear me my lord, I give you the field, including the cave. It is yours. With my own people as witnesses, I freely give it to you as a burial place for your dead.

He spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land. He said: If you will only please listen to me. I will give the price of the field. Accept it from me that I may bury my dead there.

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.

His property included the field with the cave in it as well as all the trees inside the boundaries of the field. The Hittites together with all who had entered the city gate were the official witnesses for the agreement.

As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death. Make a search in front of us all for what is yours, and take it. Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

Now that you have searched through all my belongings, what household article have you found that belongs to you? Put it out here where your men and mine can see it. Let them decide which one of us is right.

Jonathan called to David and told him what Saul said. Then he brought David to Saul. David served in Saul's army just as he had done before.

Elijah answered: It is I. Go tell your lord Elijah is here.

Now you say: 'Go, say to your lord Elijah is here.'

So how can you order me to go and tell the king that you are here? He will kill me!

That which you prepared before the peoples.

Paul cried with a loud voice: Do not harm yourself for we are all here.

I am not there with you in person. But I am with you in spirit. I have already judged the man who did this.

When you assemble in the name and with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, I will be with you in spirit.

Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you.

I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong. But his bodily presence is weak and his speech of no account.

Let a person like this take this into account: what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such we will also be in deed when we are present.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power that the Lord gave me to enlightenment and not to destruction.

It is good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

I wish to be present with you now, and to speak in a different way, for I am perplexed about you.

My beloved, you have always obeyed, not just in my presence, but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Do you remember that I repeatedly told you about these things when I was still with you?

While we were with you, we used to tell you: Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat.