Thematic Bible: Affections

For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ. Verse Concepts

They are zealous after you, but not for good; they would exclude you from us, that ye might be zealous after them. Verse Concepts

For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts, Verse Concepts

and in covetousness they shall make merchandise of you with feigned words, upon whom the condemnation from a long time ago does not delay, and their perdition does not sleep. Verse Concepts

For speaking arrogant words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from those who converse in error, Verse Concepts

But I have a few things against thee because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication. Verse Concepts

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel (who calls herself a prophetess) to teach and to seduce my slaves to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. Verse Concepts

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die; but if through the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Verse Concepts

But be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not listen to the flesh, to fulfil its desires. Verse Concepts

but I keep my body under, and bring it into subjection, lest preaching to others, I myself should become reprobate. Verse Concepts

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry; Verse Concepts

not with affection of lust, as the Gentiles who do not know God, Verse Concepts

to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent: all my delight is towards them. Verse Concepts

loving one another with brotherly love, with honour preferring one another; Verse Concepts

Therefore we were comforted in your comfort; yea, and we rejoiced even more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. For if I have gloried of anything to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our glorying, which I made before Titus, was found true. And his inward affection is more abundant toward you while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. read more.
I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.

loving you so much, that we were willing to give unto you, not only the gospel of God, but even our own souls, because ye are dear unto us. Verse Concepts

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

And because lawlessness shall abound, the charity of many shall wax cold. Verse Concepts

Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of? for I bear you record that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me. Verse Concepts

Nevertheless I have against thee that thou hast left thy first love, charity. Verse Concepts

Cry aloud, do not hold back; lift up thy voice like a shofar and preach to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sin. That they seek me daily and want to know my ways, as people that do righteousness and have not forsaken the rights of their God: they ask me of the rights of righteousness and desire to approach God.

And they shall come unto thee as the people come, and they shall be before thee, my people, and they shall hear thy words, but they shall not do them; for with their mouth they flatter, but their heart goes after their covetousness. And, behold, thou art unto them as a singer of love songs, one that has a good voice and can sing well: and they shall hear thy words, but they will not do them.

Those on the rock are those that when they hear, receive the word with joy, but these have no root, who for a while believe and in time of temptation fall away. Verse Concepts

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the LORD and to enquire in his temple. Verse Concepts

How amiable are thy habitations, O LORD of the hosts! My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.

Moreover, because I have my delight in the house of my God, I have in my own treasury, gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary: Verse Concepts

LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place of the tabernacle of thy glory. Verse Concepts

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever; the rights of the LORD are true, they are all just. More to be desired are they than gold, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

My soul is broken from desiring thy judgments at all times. Verse Concepts

MEM. O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Verse Concepts

How sweet have been thy spoken words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Verse Concepts

My soul has kept thy testimonies, and I have loved them exceedingly. Verse Concepts

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, without mercy. Verse Concepts

without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, without temperance, without meekness, without goodness, Verse Concepts

and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers; Verse Concepts

For the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me. Verse Concepts

My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten thy words. Verse Concepts

It is good to be always zealous to do good, and not only when I am present with you. Verse Concepts

As the hart pants after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after thee, O God. Verse Concepts

Whom have I in heaven but thee? And apart from thee there is nothing upon the earth that I desire. Verse Concepts

With my whole heart I have sought thee; O let me not err from thy commandments. Verse Concepts

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Verse Concepts

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Verse Concepts

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might. Verse Concepts

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy thought and with all thy strength: this is the principal commandment. Verse Concepts

Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it that it may be well with thee and that ye may be multiplied exceedingly (as the LORD God of thy fathers has said unto thee) in the land that flows with milk and honey. Verse Concepts

knowing this: that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that we should not serve sin any longer. Verse Concepts

For those that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts. Verse Concepts

If ye then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God. Set your sight on things above, not on things on the earth.

Because he has set his will upon me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high because he has known my name. Verse Concepts

And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us in the way and while he opened to us the scriptures? Verse Concepts