Bible Verses About Absence

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king’s face.

But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.

Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.