Passage cross-references.

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. …

Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, …

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? …

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: …

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.

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?