9 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People
Most Relevant Verses
As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Therefore we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all. For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth. And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.
But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children: even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
