8 Bible Verses about Being Earnest For The Church

And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that which presses on me daily--my anxiety for all the Churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led astray into sin, and I am not aflame with indignation?

Therefore be on the alert; and remember that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.

For I am longing to see you, in order to convey to you some spiritual help, so that you may be strengthened;

For with many tears I write to you, and in deep suffering and depression of spirit, not in order to grieve you, but in the hope of showing you how brimful my heart is with love for you.

I am jealous over you with God's own jealousy. For I have betrothed you to Christ to present you to Him like a faithful bride to her one husband. But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness and their fidelity to Christ.

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you. Would that I were with you and could change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

For I would have you know in how severe a struggle I am engaged on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all who have not known me personally,

But we, brethren, having been for a short time separated from you in bodily presence, though not in heart, endeavoured all the more earnestly, with intense longing, to see you face to face.