9 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People
Most Relevant Verses
As for the holy ones who are in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; outdo one another in showing honor;
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth. His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the churches.
But we were like children among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
