8 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People

As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

For this reason we feel comforted; and--in addition to this our comfort--we have been filled with all the deeper joy at Titus's joy, because his spirit has been set at rest by you all. For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you has turned out to be the truth. And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with which you welcomed him.

Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.

For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with tender Christian affection.

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that which presses on me daily--my anxiety for all the Churches.

On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children. Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.

We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, constantly praying for you as we do,