8 Bible Verses about Being Earnest For The Church

Beside those things that are from the outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the congregations. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation?

Be on guard! Remember I did not cease for three years to admonish you day and night with tears.

I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift so that you may be strengthened,

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears. Not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you.

For I am zealous over you with a godly fervor (ardor) (zeal)! For I promised you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds will be lead away from the simplicity and the purity (cleanness) that is toward Christ.

My little children, of whom I am again in labor pains until Christ is formed in you I wish to be present with you now, and to speak in a different way, for I am perplexed about you.

Let me tell you how hard I worked for you, for the people in Laodicea, and for all others who do not personally know me.

But we have been taken away from you for a short while. We have been taken away in person, not in spirit. We are all the more eager with great desire to see you.