Bible Verses About Ministers: Affectionate to their people

even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,