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1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

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1 Thessalonians 2:18
because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.

1 Thessalonians 3:6
But Timothy just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.

1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

1 Thessalonians 3:10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

2 Timothy 1:4
longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Romans 1:11
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

Romans 1:13
Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (and was hindered so far), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

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Acts 17:5
But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Acts 17:7
whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

Acts 17:8
The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

Acts 17:9
When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

Acts 17:10
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

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Luke 22:15
He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

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1 Corinthians 5:3
For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

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1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

1 Thessalonians 2:16
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

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1 Thessalonians 3:1
Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

1 Thessalonians 3:2
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

1 Thessalonians 3:4
For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

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1 Thessalonians 3:11
Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

1 Thessalonians 3:12
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

1 Thessalonians 3:13
to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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Colossians 2:5
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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John 14:18
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

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Romans 15:30
Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Romans 15:31
that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

Romans 15:32
that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

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1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

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