and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

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

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

Clothe yourselves therefore, as God's own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,

to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions.

For, much joy, have I had, and encouragement, by occasion of thy love, in that, the tender affections of the saints, have had rest given them by thee, brother.

Whom I have sent back unto thee - him, that is, my own, tender affections! -

Yea! brother, I, would, from thee, have help, in the Lord: give rest unto my tender affections in Christ.

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded;

But, whoso hath this world's goods, and beholdeth his brother having, need, and shutteth up his tender affections from him, how, is, the love of God, abiding in him?

of others be compassionately tender, snatching them, as it were, out of the fire: and avoid even the garment of the infected.