8 Bible Verses about Affection, Of Paul For The Church

For God beareth me record how greatly I long after you all from the very heart-root in Jesus Christ.

My little children - of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be fashioned in you -

And beside the things which outwardly happen unto me, I am cumbered daily and do care for all congregations.

If there be among you any consolation in Christ, if there be any comfortable love, if there be any fellowship of the spirit, if there be any compassion of mercy: fulfil my joy, that ye draw one way, having one love, being of one accord, and of one mind,

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children, so was our affection toward you. Our good will was to have dealt unto you, not the gospel of God only: but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

We give thanks to God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you in our prayers,

Wherefore even I - after that I heard of the faith which ye have in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints - cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,