36 Bible Verses about Tenderness

Someday, I, Jehovah, will cut a tender twig from the top of a cedar tree. I will then plant it on the peak of Israel's tallest mountain, where it will grow strong branches and produce large fruit.

My instruction shall drop as the rain; my words shall descend like dew, as the gentle rains on the tender plant, and as the showers on vegetation.

The inhabitants of these cities are weak, discouraged, and ashamed. They will be like plants in the field, like fresh green grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up.

Their people are drained of power. They are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, parched before it grows.

He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him. Nothing in his appearance will make us desire him.

Learn from the illustration of the fig tree. When the branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.

Learn the illustration of the fig tree. When her branch is tender and she sprouts leaves you know summer is near.

Then Abraham ran to the herd. He selected a fat calf and told a servant to butcher it and prepare it.

I was my father's son, tender and the only son to my mother.

Jacob responded: My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds that are nursing are a care to me. If they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die.

Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

He found the young woman so attractive that he fell in love with her. So he tried to win her affection.

I grieve for you, my brother Jonathan. You were dear to me! How wonderful was your love for me. It was better than the love of women.

He went to his father. He was a long way from home when his father saw him. His heart filled with pity. He ran and threw his arms around his son and kissed him.

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed. Her sin has been paid for and she has received double for all her sins from Jehovah's hand.

A rising of light will visit us from on high because of the tender mercy of our God.

He found his people in a desert land, in a barren place where animals howl. He guarded them, took care of them, and protected them because they were the precious apple (pupil) of his eye. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, spreads its wings to catch them, and carries them on its wings, Jehovah alone led his people. No foreign god was with them.read more.
He made him ride on the heights of the earth and fed him with the produce of the fields. He gave him honey from rocks and olive oil from solid rock. He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes.

Jehovah is waiting to be kind to you. He rises to have compassion on you. Jehovah is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says Jehovah. I have compassion on you.

Look down and see from heaven, from your holy and beautiful dwelling. Where is your determination (zeal) and might? Where is the longing of your heart and your compassion? Do not hold back.

Jehovah appeared to him from afar, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving-kindness.

Therefore, behold, I will entice her into the wilderness, and speak kindly to her.

When Israel was a young man, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images. It was I who taught Ephraim to walk. I took them in my arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them.read more.
I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.

Jehovah your God is with you! He is a mighty one. He will exult over you with joy. He will refresh you with his love. He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

He took them in his arms, put his hands upon them and blessed them.

When he saw the large crowds of people, he was moved with compassion for them. He knew they were distressed and scattered like sheep not having a shepherd.

He saw the great crowd, had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone the messengers who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But you were not willing!

Moved with compassion Jesus touched him. I want to, he said. Be healed!

Jesus groaned in his spirit and was troubled when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping. He asked: Where have you laid him? They answered: Come and see Lord. Jesus wept.read more.
The Jews therefore said: Look how deeply he loved him!

Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved. He said to his mother, Woman, look, your son! Then he said to the disciple, Look, your mother! That hour forward the disciple took her to his home.

If there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affection (tender mercy) and compassions, make my joy full by being of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, and of one purpose.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with punishment or with love, and in the mild spirit of meekness?

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

As God's chosen, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness (humility), meekness (mildness), and long-suffering (patience).

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, brotherly, tenderhearted, and humble.