“But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,”
1 Thessalonians 2:17 (WEB)
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15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men, 16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost. 17But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire, 18because we wanted to come to you — indeed, I, Paul, once and again — but Satan hindered us. 19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesusat his coming?