29 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

brought an alabaster-box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind Him, weeping, and washed his feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

If therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of the Spirit,

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

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

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and ye would not?

but now having no more to detain me in these parts, and having had a great desire for many years to come to you, when I take my journey 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 apology, what indignation, what fear, what earnest desire, what zeal, what revenge! by all which ye have shewn yourselves to be clear in the affair.

till Christ be formed in you, I should be glad to be present with you even now, and to change my voice; for I am in doubt about you.

for he much longed after you all, and was greatly concerned because ye had heard that he was sick.

Wherefore, my brethren, beloved and much desired, my joy and crown, so stand ye fast in the Lord, my beloved.

greatly desiring to see thee, (for I remember thy tears,) that I may be filled with joy:

O Corinthians, our mouth is opened unto you, our heart is enlarged:

ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now as a return of our love (I speak as to my children) be ye also enlarged towards us.

And when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion towards them; because they were dispersed and scattered like sheep that have no shepherd:

And when Jesus came out of the ship, He saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion towards them; because they were as sheep without a shepherd: and He began to teach them many things.

And he rose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion; and he ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgiveth you.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, benignity, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

Finally, my beloved, be unanimous, be sympathizing, love as brethren, be compassionate, be courteous:

For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.

that I have great grief and continual sorrow in my heart: for I could wish that I myself were made a curse after the manner of Christ, for my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh;

and my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected me for it; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. What then was your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish you:

and not only by his coming, but especially by the consolation wherewith he was comforted on your account, acquainting us with your earnest desire towards us, your grief, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced greatly.

But thanks be to God, who put the same concern for you into the heart of Titus:

Do ye then think that we are making apologies to you? No, we speak before God in Christ: and all, my beloved, for your edification.

so that I am afraid for you, least I have indeed bestowed upon you labour in vain. Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I also was as ye are: and ye have not injured me at all.

I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that your care for me has now flourished again; for whom ye were indeed careful before, but ye wanted opportunity.

This charge I commit to thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which before came on thee, that by them thou mightest war a good warfare,