29 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

and standing at his feet behind him, began to water his feet with her tears, and to wipe them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the perfumed balm.

IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

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

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest those who were sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children to me, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not?

O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest those who are sent unto thee; how often would I have collected thy children unto me, just as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

but now having no longer cause to detain me in these regions, and having an earnest desire to come unto you for many years past,

For behold this very thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly manner, how great diligence did it produce in you! yea, what apologizing! yea, what indignation! yea, what fear! yea, what earnest desire! yea, what zeal! yea, what vengeance! In every step ye have approved yourselves as pure in this affair.

I wish I could be with you now, and change my address; for I am in doubt about you.

For indeed he greatly longed after you all, and was very sorry that ye had heard that he had been sick.

WHEREFORE, my brethren, beloved, and very dear to me, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, O beloved.

earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I might be filled with joy;

Our mouth is opened unto you, O Corinthians! our heart is enlarged.

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Let us have a like return; I speak as unto children; be ye also enlarged.

And beholding the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were fainting, and lying here and there, as sheep that had no shepherd.

And Jesus, when he landed, saw a vast multitude, and was moved with companion towards them, for they were as sheep having no shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet at a considerable distance, his father discovered him, and was moved with compassion, and running, fell on his neck, and kissed him again and again.

but be ye kind one to another, full of sensibility, forgiving mutually, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

Finally, be all like-minded, sympathizing, loving fraternally, compassionate, friendly hearted,

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.

that great is my sorrow and unceasing the anguish in my heart. For could I myself wish that an anathema should be from Christ upon my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh?

And my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye despised not, nor rejected with disgust; but as an angel of God ye received me, even as Christ Jesus himself. What then was your blessedness, for I bear witness to you that, if it were possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and given them to me.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith he had been comforted among you, declaring to us your fervent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

But thanks be to God, who put the same solicitude for you into the heart of Titus.

Think ye that we are again making an apology to you? In the sight of God speak we in Christ: but all things, beloved, for your edification.

I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain. Be as I am, for I also am as ye are, brethren??his is my request to you: ye have not injured me in the least.

Now I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that now once more your thoughtful attention about me hath again sprung up, to which also your mind had been disposed, but ye had not found the opportunity.

This commandment, son Timothy, I give thee, according to the prophecies which were before delivered concerning thee, that by them thou mightest war a good warfare;