Being Present

And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

• Paul
• Death

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

• Steadfast
• Character
• Decision

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.