29 Bible Verses about Affection, Expressing

and stood behind him at his feet in tears; her tears began to wet his feet, so she wiped them with the hair of her head, pressed kisses on them, and anointed them with the perfume.

So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

(God is my witness that I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself!)

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

But now, as I have no further scope for work in these parts, and as for a number of years I have had a longing to visit you

See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

would that I could be with you at this moment, and alter my tone, for I am at my wits' end about you!

for he has been yearning for you all. He has been greatly concerned because you heard he was ill.

So then, my brothers, for whom I cherish love and longing, my joy and crown, this is how you must stand firm in the Lord, O my beloved.

When I recall the tears you shed when we parted, I long by night and day to see you again. That would fill me with joy,

O Corinthians, I am keeping nothing back from you; my heart is wide open for you.

'Restraint'? ??that lies with you, not me. A fair exchange now, as the children say! Open your hearts wide to me.

As he saw the crowds he was moved with pity for them; they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.

So when Jesus disembarked he saw a large crowd, and out of pity for them, as they were like sheep without a shepherd, he proceeded to teach them at length.

So he got up and went off to his father. But when he was still far away his father saw him and felt pity for him and ran to fall upon his neck and kiss him.

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear ??not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you.

when I say that I am in sore pain. I suffer endless anguish of heart. I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen;

and though my flesh was a trial to you, you did not scoff at me nor spurn me, you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus. You congratulated yourselves. Now, what has become of all that? (I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given me them.)

I do not write this to make you feel ashamed, but to instruct you as beloved children of mine.

Yes, and by more than his arrival, by the comfort which you had been to him; for he gave me such a report of how you longed for me, how sorry you were, and how eagerly you took my part, that it added to my delight.

Thanks be to God who has inspired Titus with an interest in you equal to my own;

You think all this time I am defending myself to you? No, I am speaking in Christ before the presence of God, and speaking every word, beloved, in order to build you up.

Why, you make me afraid I may have spent my labour on you for nothing! Do take my line, brothers, I beg of you ??just as I once took yours. I have no complaint against you;

It was a great joy to me in the Lord that your care for me could revive again; for what you lacked was never the care but the chance of showing it.

I transmit these instructions to you, Timotheus my son, in accordance with what the prophets said who first directed me to you; fight the good fight on these lines,