1 Thessalonians 2:17

⁵For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

³For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

⁶But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.

¹⁰night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

¹¹Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

¹³Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (and was hindered so far), that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

¹⁵He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

²³but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

³⁹King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

¹God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

²⁸Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”