1 Thessalonians 2:17
For as moch brethren as we are kept from you for a season as concernynge the bodyly presence but not in the herte we enforsed the more to se you personally with great desire.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
18And therfore we wolde have come vnto you I paul once and agayne: but Satan with stode vs.
Cross References
Acts 17:10And the brethren immediatly sent awaye Paul and Sylas by nyght vnto Berrea. Which when they were come thyther they entred into the synagoge of the Iewes.
Romans 15:23but now seynge I have no moare to do in these countres and also have bene desyrous many yeares to come vnto you
Philippians 1:22Yf it chaunce me to live in the flesshe that is to me frutefull forto worke and what to chose I wote 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 →