8 Bible Verses about Being Earnest For The Church

Apart from those things without, that which is a pressure upon me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

Wherefore, watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not to admonish every one with tears.

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

For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you, through many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for I espoused you to one husband, that I may 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 should be corrupted from the simplicity and purity which is toward Christ.

my little children, for whom I am in travail again, until Christ be formed in you! And I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice; because I am perplexed about you.

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

But we, brethren, having been bereft of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face, with great desire.