8 Bible Verses about Being Earnest For The Church

that which besets me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is infirm, and I am not infirm also? who is offended, and I am not inflamed?

Watch therefore, remembering that for the space of three years I ceased not by night and by day to warn every one with tears.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established:

For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, having espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear least as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the purity that is in Christ.

My little children, of whom I do as it were travail in birth again, till Christ be formed in you, I should be glad to be present with you even now, and to change my voice; for I am in doubt about you.

For I would have you know what a great conflict I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen me in person:

But we, brethren, being separated from you for a season, in person not in heart, endeavoured the more earnestly to see you again with much desire.