Bible Verses About Ministers: Affectionate to their people

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,