40 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

And his soul will cleave to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he will love the maiden, and he will speak to the heart of the maiden.

And stood at his feet behind, weeping, been to wet his feet with tears, and wiped with the hairs of her head; and she kissed his feet, and anointed with the perfumed oil.

If therefore any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any mutual participation of the Spirit, if any compassions and mercies,

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

And Joab son of Zeruiah, knew that the king's heart was for Absalom.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those sent to her; how often did I wish to gather thy children together, which manner a bird gathers together her young broods under the wings, and ye would not!

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and striking with stones those having been sent to her; how often I wished to gather thy children together, which manner a hen her young brood under the wings, and ye would not!

And now having no more place in these climes, and having an anxious desire to come to you from many years.

For behold, this same that ye grieve according to God, what care it wrought in you, but defence, but indignation, but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal, but punishing! In every thing ye recommended yourselves to be holy in this affair.

And I would be present with you now, and change my voice; for I am perplexed about you.

Since he was longing for you all, and harassed because ye heard that he was sick.

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

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

Our month stands open to you, O Corinthians, our heart has been enlarged.

Ye are not contracted in us, but ye are contracted in your bowels. And for the same recompense, (I speak as to children,) be ye yourselves also enlarged.

And having seen the crowds, he felt compassion for them, for they were relaxed and dispersed, as sheep not having a shepherd.

And Jesus, having come out, saw a great crowd, and felt compassion for them, for they were as sheep having not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

And the woman to whom the living son, will say to the king, for her bowels were warm upon her son, and she will say, With leave, my lord, ye shall give to her the living child, and slaying, ye shall not slay him. And this said, It shall not be even to me, even to thee; divide it

Shall a woman forget her child, from pitying the son of her womb? also these shall forget, and I shall not forget thee.

And having risen, he came to his father. And yet being far off, his father saw him, and felt compassion, and having run, fell upon his neck, and kissed him.

And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition:

For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.

As a friend, as a brother to me: I went about as mourning a mother: being darkened, I bowed down.

Mine eyes failed with tears, my bowels were in a ferment, my liver was poured out to the earth, upon the breaking of the daughter of my people; in the fainting of the child and suckling in the wide places of the city.

That there is great grief to me and continued pain in my heart. For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

My son, be wise and gladden my heart, and I will turn back word to him reproaching me.

And my temptation in my flesh, ye counted not as nothing, nor spurned; but as an angel of God ye received me, as Christ Jesus. What then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that, if possible, having plucked out your eyes, ye would have given to me.

Not shaming you, write I these, but as my beloved children I admonish you.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

Faithful the wounds of a friend; and abundant the kisses of an enemy.

What, my son? and what the son of my womb? and what the son of my vows? Thou shalt not give thy strength to women, and thy ways to the destroying of kings.

And not only in his arrival, but also in the comfort which he was comforted in you, announcing to us your anxious desire, your lamentations, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

And grace to God, having given the same care for you in the heart of Titus.

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves to you? before God in Christ we speak: and all things, beloved, for your building up.

I am afraid of you, lest I have been wearied for you in vain. Be ye as I, for I also as you, brethren, I pray you: ye injured me nothing.

And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that once already ye recovered new vigor; for thinking of me, upon whom ye were thinking, and ye had not time.

This proclamation I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the gifts of prophecy led before upon thee, that thou in them mightest war the good warfare;