29 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

and standing behind at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and wiped them off with the hair of her head; and she kept kissing His feet, and anointing them with the perfume.

If there is, therefore, any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affections and compassions,

For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the tender affections of Christ Jesus.

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to her! how often did I wish to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to her; how often I wished to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is abandoned to you!

but now, having no longer any place in these regions; and, having a desire for many years to come to you,

For, behold this very thing??hat ye were made sorry after a godly manner??hat diligence it wrought in you; yea, what defense of yourselves; yea, what indignation; yea, what fear; yea what earnest desire; yea, what zeal; yea, what avenging! In everything ye proved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

And I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice; because I am perplexed about you.

since he was longing after you all, and was in great distress, because ye heard that he was sick.

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

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Our mouth has been open to you, O Corinthians! our heart has been enlarged!

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections. Now, for a recompense in like kind (I am speaking as to my children), be ye also enlarged.

And, seeing the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, as sheep having no shepherd.

And, coming forth, He saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.

And, arising, he came to his father. But, while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion; and, running, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much.

and become kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

And, finally, be ye all of one mind, compassionate, loving as brethren, tender-hearted, humble-minded;

For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you, through many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

(for I was wishing myself to be a curse from Christ) for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh;

and my trial in my flesh ye despised not, nor spurned; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. Where, then, is your benedictions for me? For I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your eyes, ye would have given them to me!

Not as shaming you, do I write these things, but as my beloved children, admonishing you.

and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation with which he was consoled over you; rehearsing to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more:

But thanks be to God Who putteth the same diligence for you into the heart of Titus.

Think ye all this time that we are excusing ourselves to you? Before God in Christ we are speaking; and all, beloved, for your edification.

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have toiled for you in vain. Brethren, I beseech you, become as I am; because I also was as ye are. Ye wronged me in nothing;

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye revived your thought in my behalf, for whom ye were taking thought, but ye lacked opportunity.

This charge I commit to you, child Timothy, according to the prophecies going before in respect to you, that you may war with these the noble warfare;