1 Thessalonians 2:17
Forasmuch brethren, as we are kept from you for a short season, in person, not in heart, we enforced ye more to see you personally with great desire.
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- Col 2:5 : 5 For though I be absent in the fleshe, yet am I with you in the spirite, ioying and beholdyng your order, and your stedfast fayth in Christe.
- 1 Cor 5:3 : 3 For I veryly, as absent in body, but present in spirite, haue determined alredie, as though I were present, concernyng hym that hath done this deede.
- 1 Thess 3:6 : 6 But nowe lately, when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tydynges of your fayth and loue, and howe that ye haue good remembraunce of vs alwayes, desiryng to see vs, as we also to see you:
- Rom 1:13 : 13 I woulde that ye should knowe brethren, howe that I haue oftentymes purposed to come vnto you ( and haue ben let hytherto,) that I myght haue some fruite also among you, as among other of the gentiles.
- Rom 15:23 : 23 But nowe, seyng I haue no more to do in these countreys, and also haue ben desirous many yeres to come vnto you:
- Phil 1:22-26 : 22 But if I lyue in the fleshe, this (is) the fruite of my labour, and what I shall chose, I wote not. 23 For I am in a strayte betwixt two, hauyng a desire to be loosed, and to be with Christ, which is much farre better. 24 Neuerthelesse, to abyde in ye fleshe, is more needefull for you. 25 And this am I sure of, that I shall abyde & continue with you all, for your furtheraunce and ioy of fayth, 26 That your reioysyng may be ye more aboundaunt in Iesus Christe for me, by my commyng to you agayne.
- 1 Thess 3:10-11 : 10 Praying nyght and daye exceedyngly to see you personally, and repayre the wantynges of your fayth? 11 Nowe God him selfe, and our father, and our Lord Iesus Christe, guyde our waye vnto you.
- Gen 31:30 : 30 And nowe though thou wouldest nedes be gone away, because thou sore longest after thy fathers house, yet wherfore hast thou stollen my gods?
- Gen 45:28 : 28 And Israel saide: I haue inough, that Ioseph my sonne is yet alyue: I will go, and see him, yer that I dye.
- Gen 48:11 : 11 And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph, I had not thought to haue seene thy face: and yet loe, God hath shewed me also thy seede.
- 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And king Dauid desired to go foorth vnto Absalom: For where as Amnon was dead, he was comforted ouer him.
- 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 But he saide vnto him: went not myne heart with thee when the man turned againe from his charet to meete thee? Is it now a tyme to receaue money, to receaue garmentes, olyue trees, vnieyardes, sheepe, and oxen, men seruauntes, and mayde seruauntes.
- Ps 63:1 : 1 A psalme of Dauid when he was in the wyldernesse of Iuda. O Lorde thou art my Lorde: early in the morning I do seeke thee. My soule thirsteth for thee: my fleshe also longeth after thee in a baren and drye lande where no water is.
- Luke 22:15 : 15 And he sayde vnto them: I haue earnestly desired to eate this Passouer with you, before that I suffer.
- Acts 17:10 : 10 And the brethren immediatlye sent away Paul & Silas by nyght, vnto Berea: Which when they were come thyther, they entred into the synagogue of the Iewes.
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6 But nowe lately, when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tydynges of your fayth and loue, and howe that ye haue good remembraunce of vs alwayes, desiryng to see vs, as we also to see you:
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17 They are gelouse ouer you amisse: Yea, they intende to exclude you, that ye shoulde be feruent to them warde.
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9 Do thy diligence to come shortly vnto me.
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