1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time, in sight, not in heart, have hastened the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again: but Satan hath hindered us.
Cross References
Genesis 45:28And he said: It is enough for me, if Joseph my son be yet living: Iwill go and see him before I die.
Psalms 63:1A psalm of David when he was in the desert of Edom.
Acts 17:10But the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea. Who, when they were come thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews.
Romans 15:23But now having no more place in these countries, and having a great desire these many years past to come unto you,
Philippians 1:22And if to live in the flesh, that is to me the fruit of labour, and what I shall choose I know not.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 2:14-17
Effects of the Christian Ministry. ( a. d. 51.) 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. 14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judæa are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord… Read the whole commentary →