Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
9 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “being” →
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself .
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
