39 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to the damsel.

and having stood behind near his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head. And she kissed his feet much, and anointed them with the ointment.

If therefore any exhortation is in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

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

Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather thy children together as a hen does her brood under her wings, and ye would not.

But now, having no more place in these regions, and having a great desire from many years to come to you,

For behold this same thing--your grieving toward God. How much eagerness it worked in you, even a defense, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even vengeance! In everything ye demonstrated yourselves to be pure in

But I was wishing to be present with you now and to change my tone, because I am perplexed at you.

since he was longing for you all, and distressed because ye heard that he was sick.

So then, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in Lord this way beloved.

longing to see thee, having remembered thy tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

O Corinthians, our mouth has been opened to you, our heart has been enlarged.

Ye are not limited in us, but ye are limited in your bowels. But I speak the same recompense as to children, be ye also enlarged.

But when he saw the multitudes, he felt compassion for them, because they were troubled and dejected, as sheep having no shepherd.

And Jesus having come out, he saw a great multitude. And he felt compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

And having risen, he went to his father. But while he was still distant, afar off, his father saw him and felt compassion. And having ran, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much.

And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.

Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, mildness, longsuffering,

And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,

For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who bewails his mother.

My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

that great distress is in me, and unceasing sorrow in my heart. For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

And ye did not disdain, nor did ye reject my trial in my flesh, but ye received me as an agent of God, as Christ Jesus. Where then is your satisfaction? For I testify to you, that if possible, having plucked your eyes out, ye would have given them to me.

I do not write these things shaming you, but I warn you as my beloved children.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

What, my son? And what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows? Give not thy strength to women, nor thy ways to that which destroys kings.

And not only by his presence, but also by the encouragement with which he was encouraged by you, reporting to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

But thanks to God who gives the same eagerness for you in the heart of Titus.

Again, do ye think that we are making defense to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edification.

I am afraid of you, lest somehow I have labored toward you in vain. I beseech you, brothers, become like me, because I also am like ye. Ye wronged me in nothing.

But I rejoiced in Lord greatly that now at last ye have revived thinking about me, in which also ye were thinking, but ye lacked opportunity.

This command I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the prophecies leading the way for thee, so that by them thou might war the good warfare.