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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Thessalonians 2:17 Catholic Bible: As for us, friends, when we were separated from you for a little while--not in our thoughts, of course, but only in body--how we missed you and how hard we tried to see you again! </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/1_thessalonians/2-17.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/1_thessalonians/2-17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/1_thessalonians/2-17.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_thessalonians/1.htm">1 Thessalonians</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_thessalonians/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_thessalonians/2-16.htm" title="1 Thessalonians 2:16">◄</a> 1 Thessalonians 2:17 <a href="../1_thessalonians/2-18.htm" title="1 Thessalonians 2:18">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/1_thessalonians/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/1_thessalonians/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />As for us, friends, when we were separated from you for a little while--not in our thoughts, of course, but only in body--how we missed you and how hard we tried to see you again! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_thessalonians/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />As for us, brothers and sisters, when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you—in person, not in heart—we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/1_thessalonians/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />My friends, we were kept from coming to you for a while, but we never stopped thinking about you. We were eager to see you and tried our best to visit you in person. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_thessalonians/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Brothers, when we were bereft of you for a short time, in person, not in heart, we were all the more eager in our great desire to see you in person.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/1_thessalonians/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time, in sight, not in heart, have hastened the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time, in sight, not in heart, have hastened the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.</p><p class="hdg">in presence.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/5-26.htm">2 Kings 5:26</a> But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man turned back, from his chariot, to meet thee? So now thou hast received money, and received garments, to buy oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/17-10.htm">Acts 17:10</a> But the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea. Who, when they were come thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/5-3.htm">1 Corinthians 5:3</a> I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/2-5.htm">Colossians 2:5</a> For though I be absent in body, yet in spirit I am with you, rejoicing, and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith which is in Christ.</p><p class="hdg">endeavoured.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_thessalonians/3-6.htm">1 Thessalonians 3:6,10,11</a> But now when Timothy came to us from you and related to us your faith and charity, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us as we also to see you: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/31-30.htm">Genesis 31:30</a> Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/45-28.htm">Genesis 45:28</a> And he said: It is enough for me if Joseph, my son, be yet living: I will go and see him before I die.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/48-11.htm">Genesis 48:11</a> And said to his son: I am not deprived of seeing thee; moreover God hath shewn me thy seed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/13-39.htm">2 Samuel 13:39</a> And king David ceased to pursue after Absalom, because he was comforted concerning the death of Ammon.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/63-1.htm">Psalm 63:1</a> A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/22-15.htm">Luke 22:15</a> And he said to them: With desire I have desired to eat this pasch with you, before I suffer.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/1-13.htm">Romans 1:13</a> And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have often purposed to come unto you (and have been hindered hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/15-23.htm">Romans 15:23</a> But now, having no more place in these countries and having a great desire these many years past to come unto you,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philippians/1-22.htm">Philippians 1:22-26</a> And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour. And what I shall choose I know not. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/1_thessalonians/2.htm">Paul's Longing to Visit</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16</span>Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end. <span class="reftext">17</span><span class="highl">But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time, in sight, not in heart, have hastened the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.</span> <span class="reftext">18</span>For we would have come unto you, I Paul indeed, once and again: but Satan hath hindered us.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/12-58.htm">Luke 12:58</a></span><br />And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered 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