29 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

and took her stand behind Him at His feet, continually weeping. Then she began to wet His feet with her tears, but she continued to wipe them off with the hair of her head, and she kept right on kissing His feet with affection and anointing them with the perfume.

So, if there is any appeal in our union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if we have any common share in the Spirit, if you have any tenderheartedness and sympathy,

For God is my witness how I never stop yearning for all of you with the affection Christ Jesus inspires.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

"O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! The city that continues to murder the prophets, and to stone those who are sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. But you refused!

But now, as there are no more places for me to occupy in this part of the world, and as I have for many years been longing to come to see you,

For see what this very sorrow, suffered in accordance with the will of God, has done for you! How earnest it has made you, how concerned to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how much it made you long to see me, how loyal to me, how determined to punish the offender! At every point you have cleared yourselves in the matter.

I wish I could be with you right now and change the tone of my speech, for I do not know which way to turn in your case.

for he has been longing to see you and has been homesick because you have heard that he was sick.

So, my dearly loved brothers, whom I long to see, my joy and crown, by the help of the Lord keep on standing firm, dearly loved friends.

to see you again, that I may feel the fullest joy

O Corinthians, my tongue is telling you everything; my heart is stretched with love for you.

You are not squeezed into a tiny corner in my heart, but you are in your own affections. To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you too must stretch your hearts with love for me.

When He saw the crowds, His heart was moved with pity for them, because they were tired and scattered like sheep without a shepherd.

So when He got out of the boat, He saw a great crowd waiting, and His heart was moved with pity at the sight of them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and so He proceeded to teach them a number of things.

So he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and his heart was moved with pity for him, and he ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him affectionately.

You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.

So as God's own chosen people, consecrated and dearly loved, you must once for all clothe yourselves with tenderheartedness, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience; you must keep on

Finally, you must all live in harmony, be sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

For out of great sorrow and distress of heart, yes, while shedding many tears, I wrote you, not to make you sad but to make you realize that my love for you continues running over.

that I have deep grief and constant anguish in my heart; for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen.

but still you did not scorn the test my illness made of you, nor did you spurn me for it; on the contrary, you welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself. Where is your self-congratulation? For I can testify that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and have given them to me.

I do not write this to make you blush with shame but to give you counsel as my dear children.

and not only by his coming but by the comfort he had gotten from you, because he kept on telling me how you were longing to see me, how sorry you were, and how loyal you were to me, so that I was gladder still.

But thanks be to God, who kindles in the heart of Titus the same enthusiasm for you that I have;

Are you thinking all this time that I am defending myself to you? It is in the very presence of God and as one who is in union with Christ that I am speaking. And it is all for building you up, beloved, for I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, when I come I shall find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me.

I am beginning to fear that I have bestowed my labors on you for nothing. I beg you, brothers, take my point of view, just as I took yours. You did me no injustice then.

I was made very happy as a Christian to have your interest in my welfare revived again after so long; because you have always had the interest but not the opportunity to show it.

This is the instruction which I entrust to you, my son Timothy, which is in accordance with the prophetic utterances formerly made about you, that you may, aided by them, continue to fight the good fight,