9 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People

All my delight is upon the saints that are in the earth, and upon such as excel in virtue.

Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.

Therefore we are comforted, because ye are comforted: yea and exceedingly the more joyed we, for the joy that Titus had: because his spirit was refreshed of you all. I am therefore not now ashamed, though I boasted myself to him of you. For as all things which I preached unto you are true, even so is our boasting - that I boasted myself to Titus withal - found true. And now is his inward affection more abundant toward you, when he remembereth the obedience of every one of you: how with fear and trembling ye received him.

so was our affection toward you. Our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

For God beareth me record how greatly I long after you all from the very heart-root in Jesus Christ.

My little children - of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be fashioned in you -

And beside the things which outwardly happen unto me, I am cumbered daily and do care for all congregations.

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children, so was our affection toward you. Our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

We give thanks to God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you in our prayers,