Bible Verses About Affection

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

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

And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: