1 Thessalonians 2:8
Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.
2 Corinthians 12:15
And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.
1 John 3:16
We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.
Romans 1:11-12
For I am longing to see you, in order to convey to you some spiritual help, so that you may be strengthened;
Romans 9:1-3
I am telling you the truth as a Christian man--it is no falsehood, for my conscience enlightened, as it is, by the Holy Spirit adds its testimony to mine--
Romans 10:1
Brethren, the longing of my heart, and my prayer to God, on behalf of my countrymen is for their salvation.
Romans 15:29
and I know that when I come to you it will be with a vast amount of blessing from Christ.
2 Corinthians 6:1
And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.
2 Corinthians 6:11-13
O Corinthians, our lips are unsealed to you: our heart is expanded.
Galatians 4:19
you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.
Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with tender Christian affection.
Philippians 2:17
Nay, even if my life is to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I rejoice, and I congratulate you all.
Philippians 2:20
For I have no one likeminded with him, who will cherish a genuine care for you.
Philippians 2:25-26
Yet I deem it important to send Epaphroditus to you now--he is my brother and comrade both in labour and in arms, and is your messenger who has ministered to my needs.
Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brethren, dearly loved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my dearly-loved ones.
Colossians 1:7
as you learned it from Epaphras our dearly-loved fellow servant. He is to you a faithful minister of Christ in our stead,
Colossians 1:28
Him we preach, admonishing every one and instructing every one, with all possible wisdom, so that we may bring every one into God's presence, made perfect through Christ.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm--Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and be submissive to them. For they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give account; that they may do this with joy and not with lamentation. For that would be of no advantage to you.
Luke 7:2
Here the servant of a certain Captain, a man dear to his master, was ill and at the point of death;
Acts 20:23-24
except that the Holy Spirit, at town after town, testifies to me that imprisonment and suffering are awaiting me.