2 Corinthians 7:3
I am not saying this to condemn you. Condemn you? Why, I repeat, you are in my very heart, and you will be there in death and life alike.
2 Corinthians 6:11-12
O Corinthians, I am keeping nothing back from you; my heart is wide open for you.
1 Corinthians 4:14-15
I do not write this to make you feel ashamed, but to instruct you as beloved children of mine.
2 Corinthians 2:4-5
For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear ??not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you.
2 Corinthians 3:2
Why, you are my certificate yourselves, written on my heart, recognized and read by all men;
2 Corinthians 7:12
So my letter was written to you, not on account of the offender nor for the sake of the injured party, but in order to let you realize before God how seriously you do care for me.
2 Corinthians 11:11
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.
2 Corinthians 12:15
And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?
2 Corinthians 13:10
I am writing thus to you in absence, so that when I do come I may not have to deal sharply with you; I have the Lord's authority for that, but he gave it to me for building you up, not for demolishing you.
Philippians 1:8-9
(God is my witness that I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself!)
1 Thessalonians 2:8
fain, in our yearning affection for you, to impart not only the gospel of God to you but our very souls as well ??you had so won our love.