8 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People

In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:

Therefore we were comforted in your consolation; and exceeding abundantly the more rejoiced we in the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. For if I have boasted of you to him in any thing, I am not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so our boasting of you to Titus hath been found truth. And his bowels more abundantly yearn over you, when he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.

For God is my witness, how earnestly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

My little children of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,

and beside all these things from without, that accumulated burden which cometh on me daily, the care of all the churches.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherisheth her own infants. So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you,