1 Thessalonians 2:8
So in my fond affection it was my joy to give you, not only the gospel of God, but my very life also, because you had become dear to me.
2 Corinthians 12:15
For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?
1 John 3:16
By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Romans 1:11-12
For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established;
Romans 9:1-3
I am speaking the truth in Christ, it is no lie. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have deep sorrow
Romans 10:1
Brothers, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for my countrymen, that they may be saved.
Romans 15:29
And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
2 Corinthians 6:1
As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians 6:11-13
O Corinthians, I am unsealing my lips to you; my heart is wide open to you.
Galatians 4:19
O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you!
Philippians 1:8
God is my witness how I yearn for you all in the tenderness of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:17
Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,
Philippians 2:20
For I have no other like him with a genuine concern for your welfare,
Philippians 2:25-26
Epaphroditus, my brother and coworker and fellow soldier, who is your messenger and minister to my needs, I have thought it necessary to send to you;
Philippians 4:1
Stand fast then, brothers, dearly loved and longed for, my joy and my crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved!
Colossians 1:7
as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave. He is a faithful minister of Jesus Christ in your behalf,
Colossians 1:28
Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.
Luke 7:2
Here the slave of a certain Roman captain, a man dear to his master, was ill, and at the point of death.
Acts 20:23-24
except that in city after city the Holy Spirit is warning me that bonds and afflictions are awaiting me.