40 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

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

And she stood behind Him, weeping at His feet, and she began to wash His feet with tears and wipe them with the hair of her head. And she ardently kissed His feet and anointed them with the ointment.

If there is therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tendernesses and mercies,

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

And Joab the son of Zeruiah saw that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! the one killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her; how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen gathers her brood under the wings, and you did not desire it.

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

For behold this same thing (you being grieved according to God); how much it worked out earnestness in you; but also defense; but also indignation; but also fear; but also desire; but also zeal; but also vengeance! In everything you approved yourselves to be clear in the matter.

even now I desired to be present with you, and to change my voice; for I am in doubt as to you.

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

Therefore, my brothers, ones loved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand fast in this way in the Lord, beloved ones.

greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

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

You are not restrained in us, but you are restrained in your own affections. But for the same reward, (I speak as to children), you also be enlarged.

But seeing the crowds, He was moved with compassion on them, because they were tired and scattered like sheep having no shepherd.

And going out Jesus saw a large crowd. And He was moved with compassion toward them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.

And the woman whose son was the living child said to the king, for her womb yearned over her son. And she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor yours; divide it!

Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you.

And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,

And finally, all be of one mind, having compassion on one another, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly.

For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

As a friend, as to my brother, I walked; as one who mourns for a mother, I was bowed down, mourning.

My eyes fail with tears; my inward parts ferment; my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people, in that the children and the babies faint in the streets of the city.

that I have great heaviness and continual pain in my heart. For I myself was wishing to be accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

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

and you did not despise my temptation in my flesh, nor did you spurn it. But you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. What then was your blessedness? For I bear you record that, if you were able, plucking out your eyes, you would have given them to me.

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

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your 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 your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

And not only by his coming, but by the comfort with which he was comforted over you, telling us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more.

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

Again, do you think we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your building up.

I fear for you, lest somehow I have labored among you in vain. Brothers, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you. You 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. Although you indeed did think, but you lacked opportunity.

This charge I commit to you, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before about you, in order that you might war a good warfare by them,