8 Bible Verses about Affection, Of Paul For The Church

For God is my witness, how earnestly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

My little children of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,

and beside all these things from without, that accumulated burden which cometh on me daily, the care of all the churches.

IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions, fulfil ye my joy, that ye may be united in sentiment, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind.

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherisheth her own infants. So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.

For this end I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you,

For this cause I also, since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love ye have to all saints, have not ceased offering up my praises for you, making mention of you in my prayers,