1 Thessalonians 2:8

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.

For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,

Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.