2 Timothy 1:4
Good News Translation
I remember your tears, and I want to see you very much, so that I may be filled with joy.

New Revised Standard Version
Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.

Contemporary English Version
I remember how you cried, and I want to see you, because this would make me truly happy.

New American Bible
I yearn to see you again, recalling your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy:

desiring.

2 Timothy 4:9,21 For Demas hath left me, loving this world, and is gone to Thessalonica: . . .

Romans 1:11 For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you:

Romans 15:30-32 I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God, . . .

Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:26 For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.

1 Thessalonians 2:17-20 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. . . .

1 Thessalonians 3:1 For which cause, forbearing no longer, we thought it good to remain at Athens alone.

being.

Acts 20:19,31,37,38 Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews: . . .

Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule them and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more. Nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away.

filled.

Psalm 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Jeremiah 31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, the young men and old men together: and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them joyful after their sorrow.

John 16:22,24 So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you. . . .

1 John 1:4 And these things we write to you, that you may rejoice and your joy may be full.

Context
Encouragement to Be Faithful
3I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my forefathers, with a pure conscience, that without ceasing I have a remembrance of thee in my prayers, night and day. 4Desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy: 5Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunice, and I am certain that in thee also.…
Cross References
Acts 20:37
And there was much weeping among them all. And falling on the neck of Paul, they kissed him,

2 Timothy 4:9
For Demas hath left me, loving this world, and is gone to Thessalonica:

2 Timothy 4:21
Make haste to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren, salute thee.

2 Timothy 1:3
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