1 Thessalonians 2:17
For asmuch, brethren, as we were kept from you for a season, concerning sight, but not in the heart, we enforced the more to see your face with great desire.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
18Therefore we would haue come vnto you (I Paul, at least once or twise) but Satan hindered vs.
Cross References
Genesis 45:28And Israel said, I haue inough: Ioseph my sonne is yet aliue: I will go and see him yer I die.
2 Samuel 13:39And King Dauid desired to go forth vnto Absalom, because he was pacified concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
Psalms 63:1A Psalme of David. When he was in the wildernesse of Judah. O God, thou art my God, earely will I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for thee: my flesh longeth greatly after thee in a barren and drye land without water.
Acts 17:10And the brethren immediatly sent away Paul and Silas by night vnto Berea, which when they were come thither, entred into ye Synagogue of the Iewes.
Romans 15:23But nowe seeing I haue no more place in these quarters, and also haue bene desirous many yeeres agone to come vnto you,
Philippians 1:22And whether to liue in the flesh were profitable for me, and what to chuse I knowe 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 →