Thematic Bible: Affections
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Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.
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They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out from us, that ye may be zealous after them.
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For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
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And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:
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But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.
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But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
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Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
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(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)
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Affections » Should be set upon the people of God
To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight.
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as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:
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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.
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.
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Affections » Should not grow cold
Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
and because lawlessness shall prevail, the love of the most shall grow cold;
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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.
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but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.
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Affections » Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
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.
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Affections » Should be set upon the house and worship of God
One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire of him in his temple.
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{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:
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Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth.
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Affections » Should be set upon the commandments of 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.
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MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
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How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!
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My soul hath kept thy testimonies, and I love them exceedingly.
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Affections » Of the wicked, are unnatural and perverted
void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;
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without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
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and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:
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Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.
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My zeal destroyeth me, because mine oppressors have forgotten thy words.
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But it is right to be zealous at all times in what is right, and not only when I am present with you --
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Affections » Of saints, supremely set on God
{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.
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Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee.
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With my whole heart have I sought thee: let me not wander from thy commandments.
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Affections » Christ claims the first place in
He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.
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If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;
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Affections » Should be supremely set upon God
and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength.
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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.
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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.
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Affections » Carnal affections crucified in saints
knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.
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But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
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Affections » Should be set upon heavenly things
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;
Affections » Blessedness of making God the object of
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.
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Affections » Enkindled by communion with Christ
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?
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Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:
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But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.
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But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
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Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
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(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)
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Affections » Should be set » Upon the commandments of 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.
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MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
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How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!
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My soul hath kept thy testimonies, and I love them exceedingly.
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Affections » Should be set » Upon the people of God
To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight.
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as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:
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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.
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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.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the house and worship of God
One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire of him in his temple.
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{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:
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Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth.
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Affections » Should be set » Upon heavenly things
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;
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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:
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have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth;
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