29 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

And placed herself behind Jesus, near his feet, weeping. Then she began to make his feet wet with her tears, and she dried them with the hair of her head, repeatedly kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfume.

If, then, any encouragement comes through union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any communion with the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

God will bear me witness how I yearn over you all with the tenderness of Christ Jesus.

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not came!

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! she who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen takes her brood under her wings, and you would not come!

But now there are no further openings for me in these parts, and I have for several years been longing to come to you whenever I may be going to Spain.

For see what results that other sorrow--sorrow in accordance with God's will--has had in your case. What earnestness it produced! what explanations! what strong feeling! what alarm! what longing! what eagerness! what readiness to punish! You have proved yourselves altogether free from guilt in that matter.

But I could wish to be with you now and speak in a different tone, for I am perplexed about you.

For he has been longing to see you all, and has been distressed because you heard of his illness.

So then, my dear Brothers, whom I am longing to see--you who are my joy and my crown, stand fast in union with the Lord, dear friends.

as I think of your tears, longing to see you, that my happiness may be completed,

We have been speaking freely to you, men of Corinth; we have opened our heart;

There is room there for you, yet there is not room, in your love, for us. Can you not in return--I appeal to you as I should to children--open your hearts to us?

But, when he saw the crowds, his heart was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and harassed, 'like sheep without a shepherd';

On getting out of the boat, Jesus saw a great crowd, and his heart was moved at the sight of them, because they were 'like sheep without a shepherd'; and he began to teach them many things.

And he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was deeply moved; he ran and threw his arms round his neck and kissed him.

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, ready to forgive one another, just as God, in Christ, forgave you.

Therefore, as God's People, consecrated and dear to him, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindliness, humility, gentleness, forbearance;

Lastly, you should all be united, sympathetic, full of brotherly love, kind-hearted, humble-minded;

I wrote to you in sore trouble and distress of heart and with many tears, not to give you pain, but to let you see how intense a love I have for you.

Bears me out when I say that there is a great weight of sorrow upon me and that my heart is never free from pain. I could wish that I were myself accursed and severed from the Christ, for the sake of my Brothers-my own countrymen.

And as for what must have tried you in my condition, it did not inspire you with scorn or disgust, but you welcomed me as if I had been an angel of God--or Christ Jesus himself! What has become then, of your blessings? For I can bear witness that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me!

It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.

And it is not only by his arrival that we are encouraged, but also by the encouragement which he received from you; for he tells us of your strong affection, your penitence, and your zeal on my behalf--so that I am happier still.

I thank God for inspiring Titus with the same keen interest in your welfare that I have;

Have you all this time been fancying that it is to you that we are making our defense? No, it is in the sight of God, and in union with Christ, that we are speaking. And all this, dear friends, is to build up your characters;

You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted. I entreat you, Brothers, to become like me, as I became like you. You have never done me any wrong.

It was a matter of great joy to me, as one in union with the Lord, that at length your interest in me had revived. The interest indeed you had, but not the opportunity.

This, then, is the charge that I lay upon you, Timothy, my Child, in accordance with what was predicted of you--Fight the good fight in the spirit of those predictions,