8 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People
Most Relevant Verses
In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore,
In addition to my own comfort, I was made so glad that my cup ran over at the gladness Titus felt, because his spirit has been set at rest by you. Indeed, if I have been doing some boasting of you to him, I have never been ashamed of it; but just as all I said to him was true, so now my boasting before Titus has been shown to be true. Yes, his heart is running over toward you, as he continues recalling how you all obeyed him, with what reverence and trembling you welcomed him.
Because we were yearning for you so tenderly, we were willing, not only to share with you God's good news, but to lay down our very lives too for you, all because you were so dearly loved by us.
For God is my witness how I never stop yearning for all of you with the affection Christ Jesus inspires.
O my dear children, I am suffering a mother's birth pangs for you again, until Christ is formed in you.
Instead we were little children among you; we were like a mother nursing her children. Because we were yearning for you so tenderly, we were willing, not only to share with you God's good news, but to lay down our very lives too for you, all because you were so dearly loved by us.
