8 Bible Verses about Being Earnest For The Church

Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

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 so abundantly for you.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you -- but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,