40 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

And his soul was joined unto Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he fell in love with the damsel and spoke unto her heart.

and stood at his feet behind him weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

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

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that didst kill the prophets and stone those who are sent unto thee, how often I desired to gather thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

But now having more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come unto you,

For behold this same thing, that when ye were made sorry by God, what carefulness it wrought in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things ye have shown yourselves to be clean in this matter.

I desire to be present with you now and to change my voice, for I stand in doubt of you.

For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he had been sick

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

greatly desiring to see thee (being mindful of thy tears), that I may be filled with joy,

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

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

And when he saw the multitude, he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

And Jesus, when he came out, saw a great multitude and had mercy on them because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

Then the woman, of whom the living child was, spoke unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

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

And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way 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 one another even as God has forgiven you in Christ.

Clothed, therefore, (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) with bowels of mercies, with kindness, with humility, with meekness, with tolerance,

And finally, be ye all of one consent, of one affection, loving each other fraternally, merciful, courteous,

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know how much more charity I have towards you.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.

Caph My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

that I have great sorrow and continual pain in my heart. For I could wish that myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren, those who are my kinsmen according to the flesh,

My son, if thy heart is wise, my heart shall also rejoice;

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

And my affliction which was in my flesh ye did not despise, nor reject but ye received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of? for I bear you record 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 to warn you, as to my beloved sons.

My son, hearken unto the chastening 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 deceitful.

What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? Do not give thy strength nor thy ways unto the women who destroy kings.

and not by his coming only, but by the consolation with which he was comforted in you when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me so that I rejoiced the more.

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

Again, do ye think that we excuse ourselves unto you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed labour upon you in vain. Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are; ye have not injured me at all.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again, in which ye were also concerned, but ye lacked opportunity.

This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, so that according to past prophecies regarding thee, that thou by them might war a good warfare;