1 Thessalonians 2:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us.

Cross References

1 John 3:16

We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.

2 Corinthians 12:15

I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

Philippians 2:17

But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the service of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice together with all of you;

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with sighing, for that would be harmful to you.

Philippians 4:1

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

2 Corinthians 6:1

As we work together with him, we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Philemon 1:1

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To our beloved coworker Philemon,

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you. He is always striving in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.

Colossians 1:28

It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Colossians 1:7

This you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

Philippians 2:20

I have no one so like myself who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

Romans 15:29

and I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

Romans 10:1

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Philippians 1:8

For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the tender affection of Christ Jesus.

Luke 7:2

A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly and who was ill and close to death.

Romans 1:1

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,