7 Bible Verses about Affection, Kinds Of

fidelity, and natural affection; implacable, and unmerciful:

so he departed and went to his father. but while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him, and mov'd with compassion, ran and threw himself upon his neck, and kissed him.

I call Christ, and the holy spirit to witness with my conscience, that I speak the truth without guile, when I say, that I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self,

You husband, love your spouse, even as Christ loved the church, and laid down his life for her: to sanctify and purify her by the ablution of his word, that he himself might make her appear illustrious to his own eye, a church without spot, or any thing like a defect; so as to be holy and irreprehensible.read more.
in like manner ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies: "he that loves his wife, loveth himself." no man was ever yet averse to his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as the Lord doth the church: of which we are the several parts constituting his body. the scripture says, "for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and they two shall be as one." these words contain a very mystical sense, I mean in reference to Christ and the church. wherefore let every one of you without exception, love his wife even as himself; and let the wife respect her husband.

but to lectures on virtue, that they may teach the young women prudence, to love their husbands,

in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:

If then you are risen with Christ, seek the things, that are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God.