11 Bible Verses about Gone Away

But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called "The Twin." was not with them when Jesus came.

For though I am absent from you in body, I am with you in spirit, happy to note your discipline and the solid front of your faith in Christ.

when they saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

"Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there, in order that you may believe. Come, let us go to him."

For I, although absent in body, yet present in spirit, have already passed sentence, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, on him who has done this thing.

So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord.

Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ??aul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"??2 I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

Let such a man assure himself that my actions, when I am present, will be just like my words in my letters when I am absent.

For this reason I am writing thus while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

And so, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, with reverence and self-distrust work out your own salvation;