But learn a parable from the fig-tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.

Because of the tender mercy of our God, Whereby the dayspring from on high shall visit us,

Be merciful (responsive, compassionate, tender) just as your [heavenly] Father is merciful.

And the Lord seeing her, was moved with tender compassion for her, and said, Weep not.

And other [seed] fell among thorns, which grew up with it and [eventually] choked out [the tender sprouts].

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country round.

was moved with tender compassion, And going to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and setting him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

they watch'd then, and suborn'd spies, who under pretence of their tender consciences, might ensnare him in his discourse, and so betray him to the civil power and jurisdiction of the governor.

Then the priest of Jupiter, whose temple was before the city, having brought bulls and garlands to the entrance, in tended to offer sacrifice, with the multitudes.

I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.

In brotherly love be full of tender affection toward each other, in honour preferring one another:

Now we who are strong [in our convictions and faith] ought to [patiently] put up with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not just please ourselves.

Which do you want? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and tender spirit?

What soldier ever served [in the army] and paid his own expenses? Who [ever] planted a grape orchard and did not get to eat some of the grapes it produced? Or, who [ever] tended a flock of goats and did not get to drink some of the milk?

Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,

and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;

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 much I desire you all with the tender affections of Christ Jesus.

I would have you understand, my brothers, that my affairs have really tended to advance the gospel;

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,

Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness 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, you must all be harmonious, sympathizing, loving, tender-hearted, modest,

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.

But the woman fled into the wilderness, where there is a place prepared for her by God, to be tended there for twelve hundred and sixty days.

But to the woman were given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly to her place in the wilderness, where she is being tended for 'one year, and for two years, and for half a year' in safety from the Serpent.