9 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People
Most Relevant Verses
As for the sanctified who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition,
Because of this we have been encouraged. And from your encouragement, we rejoiced to a greater degree more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. Because, if I have boasted anything to him about you, I am not ashamed, but as we spoke all things in truth to you, so also our boast to Titus became truth. And his bowels are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how ye received him with fear and trembling.
Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.
My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.
Besides the external things, crowding upon me daily is the care of all the congregations.
nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children. Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us.
We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying about you,
