1 Thessalonians 2:8

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So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

Affectionately

But

Dear

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Affectionately

For I long to see you, to convey to you some spiritual gift that will strengthen you;

I am telling the truth as a Christian, it is no falsehood, for my conscience under the holy Spirit's influence bears me witness in it,

Brothers, my heart is full of good will toward them; my prayer to God is that they may be saved.

and I know that when I do come to see you, I will come with Christ's fullest blessing.

As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.

my children??ou for whom I am enduring a mother's pains again, until Christ is formed in you.

For God is my witness how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself.

But I feel that I must send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, whom you sent to look after my needs.

And in spreading the news of him, we warn everyone and teach everyone all our wisdom, in order to bring everyone to Christian perfection.

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

Obey your leaders and give way to them, for they are keeping watch in defense of your souls, as men accountable for the trust. Make their work a joy and not a grief, for that would be the worse for you.

But

except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me.

And I will be glad to spend all I have and all I am for your sake. Are you going to love me the less for loving you so intensely?

Even if my life is to be poured out as a libation as you offer your faith in a service of sacrifice to God, I am glad to have it so, and I congratulate you upon it,

We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Dear

A Roman captain had a slave whom he thought a great deal of, and the slave was sick and at the point of death.

For I have no one like him who would take such a real interest in you.

and really came to know it, in the form in which Epaphras, my dear fellow-slave, taught it to you. He is my faithful representative as a servant of Christ,

Paul, a prisoner for Jesus Christ, and brother Timothy, to our dear fellow-worker Philemon,