'Present' in the Bible

knowing that he who has raised the Lord Jesus shall raise us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.

Therefore we are always confident, and know that while present in the body we are absent from the Lord,

we are confident, I say, and pleased rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord.

Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him.

but on the principle of equality; in the present time your abundance for their lack, that their abundance may be for your lack, so that there should be equality.

But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, when present am mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.

Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such also present in deed.

For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy which is of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present you a chaste virgin to Christ.

And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.

On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.