40 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

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,

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

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

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! 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 killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her own brood under her wings, and ye would not!

but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,

For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:

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

longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.

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

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd.

And he came forth and saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.

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

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

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

Mine eyes do 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 children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:

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

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

I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish 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 unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

But thanks be to God, who putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain. I beseech you, brethren, become as I am , for I also am become as ye are . Ye did me no wrong:

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.

This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;