2 Corinthians 12:15
But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less?
Philippians 2:17
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and rejoice with all of you.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Longing for you in this way, we determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you had become dear to us.
2 Corinthians 1:6
But if we are afflicted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort that is at work in the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings on behalf of you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of his body which is the church,
2 Timothy 2:10
Because of this, I endure all [things] for the sake of the chosen, in order that they also may obtain salvation [which is] in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2 Samuel 13:39
King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was consoled that Amnon had died.
2 Samuel 17:1-4
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue after David {tonight}.
2 Samuel 18:33
The king was upset, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. He said as he went, "My son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. {If only} I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son."
John 10:10-11
The thief {comes only} so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have [it] abundantly.
1 Corinthians 4:8-18
Already you are satiated! Already you are rich! Apart from us you reign as kings! And would that indeed you reigned as kings, in order that we also might reign as kings with you!
2 Corinthians 1:14
just as you have also understood us in part, that we are your reason for boasting, just as you [are] also ours in the day of our Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this very [thing] in order that [when I] came, I would not experience sorrow from those who ought to have made me glad, [because I] have confidence about you all, that my joy {belongs to all of you}.
2 Corinthians 6:12-13
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your affections.
2 Corinthians 7:3
I do not say [this] {to condemn you}, because I have already said that you are in our hearts, so that we die together and we live together.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Galatians 4:10
You carefully observe days and months and seasons and years.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit [to them], for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not [with] groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.