1 Thessalonians 2:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

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  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 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.
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
  • Rom 1:11-12 : 11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; 12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
  • Rom 9:1-3 : 1 ¶ I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 ¶ Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
  • Rom 15:29 : 29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 ¶ We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
  • 2 Cor 6:11-13 : 11 ¶ O [ye] Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. 13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto [my] children,) be ye also enlarged.
  • Gal 4:19 : 19 ¶ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
  • Jer 13:15-17 : 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. 16 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. 17 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.
  • Phil 2:20 : 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
  • Phil 2:25-26 : 25 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. 26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
  • Phil 4:1 : 1 ¶ Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved.
  • Col 1:7 : 7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
  • Col 1:28 : 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
  • Col 4:12 : 12 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.
  • Phlm 1:1 : 1 ¶ Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy [our] brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
  • Heb 13:17 : 17 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.
  • Luke 7:2 : 2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.
  • Acts 20:23-24 : 23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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