Thematic Bible: Affections


Thematic Bible




They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them. Verse ConceptsExcommunicationmotives

For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts, Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessCharacter Of WickedCaptivesHeavy BurdensWeak WomenProblem Peoplevulnerabilityimpulsivenessworms


For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error, Verse ConceptsFutilityFaultsemptinessEloquenceCharmdesiresTemptation, Sources OfEnticersBoastersAllurements Of SinWantonnessLiving For The MaterialEnticingUseless WordsEscaping From PeopleEvil DesiresError

But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication. Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyFreedom, Abuse Of ChristianFoodAdultery, SpiritualChastityToleranceAbuse, Of Christian FreedomFalse Teachers, Examples OfStumbling BlocksMisteachingFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsThey Committed ImmoralitysexSexual Immorality

But I have against thee that thou permittest the woman Jezebel, she who calls herself prophetess, and she teaches and leads astray my servants to commit fornication and eat of idol sacrifices. Verse ConceptsFalse TeachingsOpposition, To Sin And EvilPeople Of God, In NtFalse Prophets, Examples OfSexual Sin, Nature OfProphetessSeducersBeing MisleadMisteachingFood For Other godsFood Offered To IdolsThey Committed Immoralityjezebel






To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight. Verse ConceptsSaintsNames And Titles For The ChristianAffection For God's PeoplePleasing MenThe EarthInner BeautyBeing BeautifulExcellenceheroes


For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been the truth; and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. read more.
I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you.

Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us. Verse ConceptsMentoringCommitment, to God's peopleLove, For One AnotherUnity, Of God's PeopleValuesMinisters, Should BeMinisters, Way They Should TeachAffection For God's PeopleThe Gospel PreachedLove Exists Between PeopleSharing

Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:


What then was your blessedness? for I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your own eyes ye would have given them to me. Verse ConceptsPlucking OutPositive ThinkingAffections Should Not Grow Cold


Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that doeth righteousness, and hath not forsaken the ordinance of their God; they ask of me the ordinances of righteousness, they take delight in approaching to God:

And they come unto thee as a people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they do them not; for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their dishonest gain. And behold, thou art unto them as a lovely song, a pleasant voice, and one that playeth well on an instrument; and they hear thy words, but they do them not.

But those upon the rock, those who when they hear receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of trial fall away. Verse ConceptsApostatesWarnings Against ApostasyHeart, Fallen And RedeemedTemptation, Universality OfEnticementHearing God's WordBeing TemptedBelief In GodRejoicing In God's Wordtrailsimpulsiveness


{To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

And moreover, in my affection for the house of my God I have given of my own property of gold and silver, for the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary: Verse ConceptsDonationsAffectionconstruction

Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth. Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodHousesGod's DwellingThose Loving God

The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes; The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether: They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.

My soul breaketh for longing after thy judgments at all times. Verse ConceptsLonging For God


How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth! Verse ConceptsFoodTasteBibleBible, In Christian LivingHoneySweetnessPromises concerningCandyPromises

My soul hath kept thy testimonies, and I love them exceedingly. Verse ConceptsAffection, For God's WordI Keep The CommandmentsLoving God's Things




For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me. Verse ConceptsIrreverenceProperty, HousesSubstitutionHumility Of ChristProphecies Concerning ChristInsulting ChristMessianic PropheciesPassion

My zeal destroyeth me, because mine oppressors have forgotten thy words. Verse ConceptsTirednessFervourZealousness, Examples Of

But it is right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you -- Verse ConceptsEnthusiasmFervourZealIn Men's PresenceDoing The Right Thing

{To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Verse ConceptsMusicSaints, Communion With GodDeer Etc.BrooksDeer

Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee. Verse ConceptsAmbition, positive aspects ofdesiresLonging For GodHeart, Affections OfHeaven Better Than EarthThe Earth

With my whole heart have I sought thee: let me not wander from thy commandments. Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfRenewed HeartDeterminationWhole HeartednessSingle Mindednesswandering




and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. Verse ConceptsFalse WorshipBeing A Part Of The Family Of GodClaimsBeing In A RelationshipHealthHeart, And Holy SpiritIntelligenceWorship, Acceptable AttitudesWhole HeartednessLiving SoulsReceptive HeartsThe Need To Love GodLove And StrengthStrength And Love

And thou shalt hear, Israel, and take heed to do them; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase greatly, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey. Verse ConceptsFoodLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilkGod Multipling PeopleMilk And Honey



If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God: have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth;

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorLove Towards God, Results InLove For GodKnowing God's CharacterGod's ProtectionFocusProtecting Your FamilyProtection From Danger

And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, and as he opened the scriptures to us? Verse ConceptsFellowship With ChristHow Disciples LearnRoadsHeart, Affections OfInward FireChrist And The Scripturesgirlfriends






The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes; The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether: They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.

My soul breaketh for longing after thy judgments at all times. Verse ConceptsLonging For God


How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth! Verse ConceptsFoodTasteBibleBible, In Christian LivingHoneySweetnessPromises concerningCandyPromises

My soul hath kept thy testimonies, and I love them exceedingly. Verse ConceptsAffection, For God's WordI Keep The CommandmentsLoving God's Things

To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight. Verse ConceptsSaintsNames And Titles For The ChristianAffection For God's PeoplePleasing MenThe EarthInner BeautyBeing BeautifulExcellenceheroes


Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us. Verse ConceptsMentoringCommitment, to God's peopleLove, For One AnotherUnity, Of God's PeopleValuesMinisters, Should BeMinisters, Way They Should TeachAffection For God's PeopleThe Gospel PreachedLove Exists Between PeopleSharing

For this reason we have been encouraged. And we the rather rejoiced in our encouragement more abundantly by reason of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. Because if I boasted to him anything about you, I have not been put to shame; but as we have spoken to you all things in truth, so also our boasting to Titus has been the truth; and his affections are more abundantly towards you, calling to mind the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.


{To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

And moreover, in my affection for the house of my God I have given of my own property of gold and silver, for the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary: Verse ConceptsDonationsAffectionconstruction

Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth. Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodHousesGod's DwellingThose Loving God

If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God: have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth;

And moreover, in my affection for the house of my God I have given of my own property of gold and silver, for the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary: Verse ConceptsDonationsAffectionconstruction