29 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

and standing behind, at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and to wipe them with her hair, while she tenderly kissed his feet, and poured the perfume over them.

If then there is any comfort in Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any companionship of the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

God is my witness how I yearn for you all in the tenderness of Christ Jesus.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

But now, since I have no more any "opening" in these parts, and since I have longed for many years to come to you

Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

How I wish I could be with you now, that I might change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness.

Stand fast then, brothers, dearly loved and longed for, my joy and my crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved!

Night and day when I recall your tears I am longing to see you, that my happiness may be complete.

O Corinthians, I am unsealing my lips to you; my heart is wide open to you.

There is no narrowness in my love; but the narrowness is in your own. I pray you, therefore, in fair exchange (I speak as to my children), let your hearts also be wide open to me.

And when he saw the crowds he had compassion on them because they were distressed and fainting, like sheep without a shepherd.

So when Jesus landed he saw a vast multitude, and he was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

"So he arose and went to his father; but while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Therefore, as God's chosen people, consecrated and beloved, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, good temper;

Finally, you should all be harmonious, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tender-hearted, humble-minded;

For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart, through many tears; not to pain you, but to convince you of my love, my abundant love for you.

and incessant anguish in my heart. For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself. Why then did you account yourselves so happy? (For I bear you witness that if you could you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me.)

I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.

and not alone by his coming, but also by the comfort you had been to him. For he told me of your eager longing, of your penitence, and of your zeal on my behalf, so that I was happier still.

But thanks be to God who has inspired in the heart of Titus the same zeal on your behalf that I have.

Do you think that all this time I am defending myself to you? It is before the presence of God that I am speaking in Christ; and all, beloved, for your upbuilding.

I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose. Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also have become as you are. You never did me any wrong;

Moreover, I greatly rejoiced in the Lord that now once more your care for me blossomed afresh; though indeed you did take thought in this matter, but you lacked the opportunity of expression.

This charge then, I am laying upon you, Timothy, my son, according to the predictions formerly made concerning you. Fight the good fight in the spirit of these predictions,