1 Thessalonians 2:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

Thus being affectioned toward you, our good will was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospel of God onely, but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs.

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  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will most gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your soules: though the more I loue you, the lesse I am loued.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby haue we perceiued loue, that he layde downe his life for vs: therefore we ought also to lay downe our liues for the brethren.
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and though I bee offered vp vpon the sacrifice, and seruice of your faith, I am glad, and reioyce with you all.
  • Rom 1:11-12 : 11 For I long to see you, that I might bestowe among you some spirituall gift, that you might be strengthened: 12 That is, that I might be comforted together with you, through our mutuall faith, both yours and mine.
  • Rom 9:1-3 : 1 I say the trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience bearing mee witnes in the holy Ghost, 2 That I haue great heauinesse, and continuall sorow in mine heart. 3 For I woulde wish my selfe to be separate from Christ, for my brethren that are my kinsemen according to the flesh,
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brethren, mine hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saued.
  • Rom 15:29 : 29 And I knowe when I come, that I shall come to you with abundance of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 So we therefore as workers together beseech you, that ye receiue not the grace of God in vaine.
  • 2 Cor 6:11-13 : 11 O Corinthians, our mouth is open vnto you: our heart is made large. 12 Ye are not kept strait in vs, but ye are kept strait in your owne bowels. 13 Nowe for the same recompence, I speake as to my children, Be you also inlarged.
  • Gal 4:19 : 19 My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my recorde, howe I long after you all from the very heart roote in Iesus Christ.
  • Jer 13:15-17 : 15 Heare and giue eare, be not proude: for the Lord hath spoken it. 16 Giue glory to the Lorde your God before he bring darknes, and or euer your feete stumble in the darke mountaines, and whiles you look for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death and make it as darkenesse. 17 But if ye will not heare this, my soule shall weepe in secrete for your pride, and mine eye shall weepe and drop downe teares, because the Lords flocke is caried away captiue.
  • Phil 2:20 : 20 For I haue no man like minded, who will faithfully care for your matters.
  • Phil 2:25-26 : 25 But I supposed it necessarie to sende my brother Epaphroditus vnto you, my companion in labour, and fellowe souldier, euen your messenger, and he that ministred vnto me such things as I wanted. 26 For he longed after all you, and was full of heauinesse, because yee had heard that hee had beene sicke.
  • Phil 4:1 : 1 Therefore, my brethre, beloued and longed for, my ioy and my crowne, so continue in the Lorde, yee beloued.
  • Col 1:7 : 7 As yee also learned of Epaphras our deare fellowe seruaunt, which is for you a faithfull minister of Christ:
  • Col 1:28 : 28 Whome we preache, admonishing euery man, & teaching euery man in all wisdome, that we may present euery man perfect in Christ Iesus,
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras the seruant of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, and alwayes striueth for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect, and full in all the will of God.
  • Phlm 1:1 : 1 Paul a prisoner of Iesus Christ, and our brother Timotheus, vnto Philemon our deare friende, and fellowe helper,
  • Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey them that haue the ouersight of you, and submit your selues: for they watche for your soules, as they that must giue accountes, that they may doe it with ioy, and not with griefe: for that is vnprofitable for you.
  • Luke 7:2 : 2 And a certaine Ceturions seruant was sicke and readie to die, which was deare vnto him.
  • Acts 20:23-24 : 23 Saue that ye holy Ghost witnesseth in euery citie, saying, that bondes and afflictions abide me. 24 But I passe not at all, neither is my life deare vnto my selfe, so that I may fulfill my course with ioye, and the ministration which I haue receiued of the Lorde Iesus, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.

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