1 Thessalonians 2:17

Coverdale Bible (1535)

But we (brethren) for as moch as we haue bene kepte from you for a season, as concernynge the bodely presence, but not in the hert, we haue haisted the more with greate desyre to se you personally.

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  • Col 2:5 : 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I present with you in the sprete: ioyenge, and beholdinge youre order and the stedfastnes of youre faith in Christ.
  • 1 Cor 5:3 : 3 For I verely as absent in body, but present in sprete, haue determyned allready as though I were present (cocernynge him that hath done this dede)
  • 1 Thess 3:6 : 6 But now that Timotheus is come fro you vnto vs, and hath shewed vs of youre faith and loue, & how that ye haue allwaye good remembraunce of vs, desyringe to se vs as we also longe to se you:
  • Rom 1:13 : 13 But I wolde ye shulde knowe (brethren) how that I haue often tymes purposed to come vnto you (but haue bene let hither to) that I mighte do some good amonge you, like as amonge other Gentyles.
  • Rom 15:23 : 23 But now syth I haue nomore place in these countrees, hauynge yet a desyre many yeares sence to come vnto you,
  • Phil 1:22-26 : 22 But in as moch as to lyue in ye flesh is frutefull to me for the worke, I wote not what 23 I shal chose, for both these thinges lye harde vpon me. I desyre to be lowsed, & to be with Christ, which thinge were moch better (for me) 24 but to abyde in the flesh is more nedefull for you. 25 And this am I sure of, that I shal abyde, and contynue with you all, for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre faith, 26 that ye maye abundauntly reioyse in Christ Iesu thorow me, by my comynge to you agayne.
  • 1 Thess 3:10-11 : 10 We praye exceadingly daye and nighte, that we mighte se you presently, and fulfill that which is lackynge in yor faith. 11 God himselfe or father & or LORDE Iesus Christ gyde oure iourney vnto you.
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 And for so moch then as thou woldest nedes departe, and longedest sore after yi fathers house, why hast thou stollen away my goddes?
  • Gen 45:28 : 28 & he sayde: I haue ynough, that my sonne Ioseph is yet a liue I wil go, and se him, before I dye.
  • Gen 48:11 : 11 & saide vnto Ioseph: Beholde, I haue sene yi face, which I thought not: & lo, God hath caused me to se yi sede also.
  • 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And kynge Dauid ceassed from goinge out agaynst Absalom, for he had comforted him selfe ouer Ammon that he was deed.
  • 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 But he sayde vnto him: Wente not my hert wt the, whan the man turned backe from his charet to mete the? Now thou hast take the syluer & the rayment, olyue trees, vynyardes, shepe, oxen, seruauntes & maydens.
  • Ps 63:1 : 1 O God, thou art my God: early wil I seke the.
  • Luke 22:15 : 15 and he sayde vnto them: I haue hertely desyred to eate this Easter labe with you before I suffre.
  • Acts 17:10 : 10 But the brethren immediatly sent awaye Paul and Sylas by night vnto Berea. Whan they came there, they wete in to the synagoge of the Iewes

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    7 but we were tender amonge you. Like as a norsse cherisheth hir children,

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    18 Therfore wolde we haue come vnto you, (I Paul) two tymes, but Sathan withstode vs.

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  • 10 We praye exceadingly daye and nighte, that we mighte se you presently, and fulfill that which is lackynge in yor faith.

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    4 And whan we were with you, we tolde you before, that we shulde suffre tribulacion, euen as it is come to passe, & as ye knowe.)

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    6 But now that Timotheus is come fro you vnto vs, and hath shewed vs of youre faith and loue, & how that ye haue allwaye good remembraunce of vs, desyringe to se vs as we also longe to se you:

    7 therfore brethren we haue consolacion in you in all oure trouble and necessite thorow youre faith.

  • Rom 15:22-23
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    22 This is also the cause, wherfore I haue bene oft tymes let to come vnto you.

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    11 For I longe to se you, that I mighte bestowe vpon you some spirituall gifte to stregth you

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  • 16 forbyddinge vs to speake vnto the Heythen that they mighte be saued, to fulfill their synnes allwaye: for the wrath is come vpon them allready vnto ye vttemost.

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    1 For ye youre selues (brethren) knowe of oure intrauce vnto you, how that it was not in vayne,

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  • 12 I had many thinges to wryte vnto you: neuertheles I wolde not wryte wt papyre and ynke, but I trust to come vnto you, and to speake with you mouth mouth, that oure ioye maye be full.

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  • 19 But I desyre you ye more abundauntly, that ye so do, yt I maye be restored vnto you the more quyckly.

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  • 4 and prayed vs with greate instauce, that we wolde receaue their benefite and fellishippe of the hadreachinge that is done for the sayntes:

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    17 They are gelous ouer you amysse. Yee they wolde make you to fall backe, that ye might be feruet to the warde.

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  • 28 I haue sent him therfore the more haistely, that ye mighte se him, and reioyce agayne, and that I also mighte haue the lesse sorowe.

  • 8 Neuertheles we are of good comforte, and had leuer to be absent from the body, & to be at home with the LORDE.

  • 26 that ye maye abundauntly reioyse in Christ Iesu thorow me, by my comynge to you agayne.

  • 10 yee and that thinge ye do vnto all the brethre, which are thorow out all Macedonia. But we beseke you brethren that ye increace yet more and more,

  • 14 where we founde brethre and were desyred of them to tarye there seue dayes, and so came we to Rome.

  • 22 I beseke you brethren, suffre the worde of exhortacion, for I haue wrytten vnto you in few wordes.

  • 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I present with you in the sprete: ioyenge, and beholdinge youre order and the stedfastnes of youre faith in Christ.

  • 3 Neuertheles yet haue we sent these brethren, lest oure reioysinge ouer you shulde be in vayne in this behalfe, that ye mighte be ready, as I haue reported of you:

  • 1 I wolde ye knewe what fightinge I haue for youre sakes, and for them of Laodicea, and for as many as haue not sene my personne in the flesh,

  • 9 Make spede to come vnto me atonce.

  • 26 for so moch as he longed after you all, and was full of heuynes, because ye had herde that he was sicke.

  • 10 onely that we shulde remebre the poore, which thinge also I was diligent to do.

  • 15 How happy were ye then? For I beare you recorde, that yf it had bene possible, ye had plucked out youre awne eyes, and geue them vnto me.

  • 36 Neuertheles after certayne dayes Paul sayde vnto Barnabas: let vs go agayne, and vyset oure brethren thorow all the cities (wherin we haue shewed the worde of the LORDE) how they do.