and his heart lay unto Dina, the daughter of Jacob. And he loved the damsel and spake kindly unto her,

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

If there be among you any consolation in Christ, if there be any comfortable love, if there be any fellowship of the spirit, if there be any compassion of mercy:

For God beareth me record how greatly I long after you all from the very heart-root in Jesus Christ.

When Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was turned again to Absalom,

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her chicks under her wings? But ye would not.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her nest under her wings, but ye would not.

but now seeing I have no more to do in these countries, and also have been desirous many years to come unto you,

Behold what diligence this godly sorrow that ye took hath wrought in you: yea it caused you to clear yourselves. It caused indignation, it caused fear, it caused desire, it caused a fervent mind, it caused punishment. For in all things ye have showed yourselves that ye were clear in that matter.

I would I were with you now, and could change my voice, for I stand in a doubt of you.

For he longed after you, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard say that he should be sick,

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

desiring to see thee, mindful of thy tears: so that I am filled with joy,

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you. Our heart is made large:

ye are in no strait in us, but are in a strait in your own hearts. I promise you like reward with me, as to my children.

But when he saw the people, he had compassion on them, because they were pined away, and scattered abroad, even as sheep having no shepherd.

And Jesus went out and saw much people, and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep which had no shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

Then spake the woman whose son lived, unto the king - for her motherly heart was kindled with pity over her son - and said, "I beseech thee, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it." And the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor thine, but divide it."

Doth a wife forget the child of her womb, and the son who she hath born? And though she do forget, yet will not I forget thee.

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

Be ye courteous one to another, and merciful, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake forgave you.

Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering,

In conclusion, be ye all of one mind, one suffer with another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous,

For in great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not to make you sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have most specially unto you.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother; I went heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

{Khaf} Mine eyes begin to fail me through weeping, my body is disquieted, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the great hurt of my people, seeing the children and babes did swoon in the streets of the city.

that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. For I have wished myself to be cursed from Christ, for my brethren and my kinsmen as pertaining to the flesh:

My son, if thy heart receive wisdom, my heart also shall rejoice:

My son, be wise, and thou shalt make me a glad heart; so that I shall make answer unto my rebukers.

And my temptation which I suffered by reason of my flesh, ye despised not, neither abhorred, but received me as an angel of God: yea as Christ Jesus. How happy were ye then? 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 write not these things to shame you: but as my beloved sons, I warn you.

My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

My son, thou son of my body: O my dear beloved son, give not over thy substance and mind unto women, which are the destruction even of kings.

And not with his coming only: but also with the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you. For he told us your desire, your mourning, your fervent mind to me ward: So that I now rejoice the more.

Thanks be unto God, which put in the heart of Titus the same good mind toward you.

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves? We speak in Christ in the sight of God. But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

I am in fear of you, lest I have bestowed on you labour in vain. Brethren, I beseech you, be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Ye have not hurt me at all.

I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at the last ye are revived again to care for me in that wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

This commandment commit I unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which in time past were prophesied of thee, that thou in them shouldest fight a good fight,