'Dear' in the Bible

From the elder, to Gaius my dear brother, whom I love in truth.

Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.

Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers (even though they are strangers).

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.