29 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

brought an alabaster box of ointment, And standing at his feet behind him weeping, watered his feet with a shower of tears, and wiped them, with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

If there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies; Fulfil ye my joy,

For God is my witness, how I long for you all, with the bowels of Jesus Christ.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them who are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a bird gathereth her young under her wings; and ye would not!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a bird gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

But now having no longer place in these parts, and having had a great desire for many years to come to you, Whenever I go into Spain, I will come to you;

For behold, this very thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly manner, what diligence it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge? In all things ye have approved yourselves to be pure in this matter.

I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick.

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

Longing to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened toward you, our heart is inlarged.

Ye are not straitened in us; but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompence of the same, (I speak as to my children) be ye also inlarged.

But seeing the multitudes he was moved with tender compassion for them, because they were faint and scattered, as sheep having no shepherd.

And Jesus coming out saw a great multitude, and was moved with tender compassion for them; because they were as sheep having no shepherd, and he taught them many things.

And he arose and came to his father: But while he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and his bowels yearned, and he ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him.

And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted; forgiving one another; as God also for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:

Finally, Be ye all of one mind, sympathizing with each other, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

For from much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the abundant love which I have toward you.

That I have great sorrow and continual anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen after the flesh:

Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? For I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.

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

And not only by his coming, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted over you, when he told us your earnest desire, your grief, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

But thanks be to God, who put the same diligent care for you in the heart of Titus.

Think ye that we again excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all things, beloved, for your edification.

Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am; for I also am as ye were: ye have not injured me at all. Ye know how though infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to you at first.

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful; but ye lacked opportunity.

This charge I commit to thee, son Timotheus, according to the prophecies which went before concerning thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare: