8 Bible Verses about Affection For God's People

In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;

In addition to the encouragement that this gave us, we were made far happier still by the happiness of Titus for his heart has been cheered by you all. Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, you did not put me to shame; but, just as every thing we had said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has also proved to be the truth. And his affection for you is all the greater, as he remembers the deference that you all showed him, and recalls how you received him with anxious care.

In our strong affection for you, that seemed to us the best way of sharing with you, not only God's Good news, but our very lives as well--so dear had you become to us.

God will bear me witness how I yearn over you all with the tenderness of Christ Jesus.

You for whom I am again enduring a mother's pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been formed in you.

And, not to speak of other things, there is my daily burden of anxiety about all the Churches.

But we lived among you with the simplicity of a child; we were like a woman nursing her own children. In our strong affection for you, that seemed to us the best way of sharing with you, not only God's Good news, but our very lives as well--so dear had you become to us.

Whenever we pray, we never fail to thank God, the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, about you,