Everyday words
Absent
Start with Genesis 31:49, where the Bible uses the word absent in a real sentence: “and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.” The rest of this list stays on that same word so a family can hear it more than once.
1. Genesis 31:49
“and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.”
2. 1 Corinthians 5:3
“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.”
3. 2 Corinthians 5:6
“Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;”
4. 2 Corinthians 5:8
“We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.”
5. 2 Corinthians 5:9
“Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.”
6. 2 Corinthians 10:1
“Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.”
7. 2 Corinthians 10:11
“Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.”
8. 2 Corinthians 13:2
“I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;”
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Say it
Practice Genesis 31:49
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
andMizpah,forhesaid,“Yahwehbetweenmeandyou,weareonefromanother.