20 Bible Verses about Affection
Most Relevant Verses
There is no narrowness in our love to you: the narrowness is in your own feelings.
Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.
This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,
As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.
Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.
destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,
along with power of endurance, godliness; along with godliness, brotherly affection; and along with brotherly affection, love.
Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.
Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
Topics on Affection
Affection For God's People
Romans 12:10As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.
Affection, Evil
Colossians 3:5Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
Affection, Expressing
Luke 7:38and, standing behind close to His feet, weeping, began to wet His feet with her tears; and with her hair she wiped the tears away again, while she lovingly kissed His feet and poured the perfume over them.
Affection, Good
John 11:33-36Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit,
Affection, Kinds Of
Romans 1:31faithless to their promises, without natural affection, without human pity.
Affection, Of Paul For The Church
Philippians 1:8For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with tender Christian affection.
Affections Should Not Grow Cold
Matthew 24:12and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold;
Heart, Affections Of
2 Peter 2:10and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;
