8 Bible Verses about Being Earnest For The Church

besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I am not incensed?

Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, by day and by night, I ceased not to warn every one of you with tears.

For I greatly desire to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, in order that you may be established;

For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.

for I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which pertains to Christ.

My little children, for whom I again suffer the pains of gestation, till Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am in doubt concerning you.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

But we, brethren, having been taken from you for a short time, in person, not in heart, did, with great desire, endeavor the more earnestly to see your face.