8 Bible Verses about Being Earnest For The Church

And, not to speak of other things, there is my daily burden of anxiety about all the Churches. Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led astray without my burning with indignation?

Therefore, be on your guard, remembering how for three years, night and day, I never ceased, even with tears, to warn each one of you.

For I long to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift and so give you fresh strength--

I wrote to you in sore trouble and distress of heart and with many tears, not to give you pain, but to let you see how intense a love I have for you.

I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, that I might present you to the Christ a pure bride. Yet I fear that it may turn out that, just as the Serpent by his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may have lost the loyalty and purity due from you to the Christ.

You for whom I am again enduring a mother's pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been formed in you. But I could wish to be with you now and speak in a different tone, for I am perplexed about you.

I want you to know in how great a struggle I am engaged for you and for Christ's People at Laodicea, and for all who have not yet seen me;

As for ourselves, Brothers, our having been bereaved of you even for a short time--though in body only, and not in spirit--made us all the more eager to see your faces again; and the longing to do so was strong upon us.