And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”
they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country,
So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia,
But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium.
Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem, but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith? Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you,
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—
Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.
Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy.
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—
But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us.
When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,
“When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’
I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’
Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the Lord.
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
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