8 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People

As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another.

This is what comforts me. In addition to this comfort of mine, I have been made still happier by the happiness of Titus; because his spirit was refreshed by you all. Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth. And his tender affection is all the greater toward you, when he calls to mind the obedience of you all, and the fear and trembling with which you received him.

So in my fond affection it was my joy to give you, not only the gospel of God, but my very life also, because you had become dear to me.

God is my witness how I yearn for you all in the tenderness of Christ Jesus.

O my little children, of whom I travail again in birth until Christ be formed within you!

Not to mention other things, there is the crowding pressure of each day upon me, the care of all the churches.

On the contrary I showed myself among you as gentle as a mother, when she tenderly nurses her own children. So in my fond affection it was my joy to give you, not only the gospel of God, but my very life also, because you had become dear to me.

Whenever I pray for you I am continually thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ