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Selected Verse: 1 Thessalonians 2:17 - King James

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1Th 2:17 King James But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
But we--resumed from Th1 2:13; in contrast to the Jews, Th1 2:15-16.

taken--rather as Greek, "severed (violently, Act 17:7-10) from you," as parents bereft of their children. So "I will not leave you comfortless," Greek, "orphanized" (Joh 14:18).

for a short time--literally, "for the space of an hour." "When we had been severed from you but a very short time (perhaps alluding to the suddenness of his unexpected departure), we the more abundantly (the shorter was our separation; for the desire of meeting again is the more vivid, the more recent has been the parting) endeavored," &c. (Compare Ti2 1:4). He does not hereby, as many explain, anticipate a short separation from them, which would be a false anticipation; for he did not soon revisit them. The Greek past participle also forbids their view.
 
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4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.
9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.
10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: