40 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

and his soul cleaveth to Dinah, daughter of Jacob, and he loveth the young person, and speaketh unto the heart of the young person.

and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.

If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

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

And Joab son of Zeruial knoweth that the heart of the king is on Absalom,

'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

and now, no longer having place in these parts, and having a longing to come unto you for many years,

for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.

and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.

seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

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

Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!

ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your own bowels, and as a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say it,) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,

and having come forth, Jesus saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion on them, that they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach many things.

And the woman whose son is the living one saith unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she saith, 'O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this one saith, 'Let it be neither mine or thine -- cut it.'

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.

'And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

As if a friend, as if my brother, I walked habitually, As a mourner for a mother, Mourning I have bowed down.

Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart -- for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

and my trial that is in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus; what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

Not as putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

'What, my son? and what, son of my womb? And what, son of my vows? Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.

and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,

And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,

Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, are for your up-building,

I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you. Become as I am -- because I also am as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;

This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,