1 Thessalonians 2:17

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For 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.

For 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.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’ ”

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the middle of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

But when Timothy came just now 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,

Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”

Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.

The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Now 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.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.

Let all that you do be done in love.

For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

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

Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

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

Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

“Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”

God, 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.

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

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

When we had departed from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

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

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.