2 Corinthians 2:4

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

2 Corinthians 7:12

So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God.

Leviticus 19:17-18

‘You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of water,
Because they do not keep Your law.

Proverbs 27:5-6

Better is open rebuke
Than love that is concealed.

Jeremiah 13:15-17

Listen and give heed, do not be haughty,
For the Lord has spoken.

Luke 19:41-44

When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,

Romans 9:2-3

that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.

2 Corinthians 7:8-9

For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—

2 Corinthians 11:2

For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.

2 Corinthians 12:15

I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

Philippians 3:18

For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,

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