9 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People

For the holy ones who are in the land, And the honourable, all my delight is in them.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all; because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth, and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;

so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

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

my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children, so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

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