Thematic Bible: Affections
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Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
For do I now use persuasions from men, or from God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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They affect zeal for you, not honourably; but they wish to exclude us, that you may be zealously attached to them.
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For such are they who insinuate themselves into houses, and captivate weak women laden with accumulated sins, and actuated by a variety of passions,
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And with plausible speeches will they avariciously make gain of you whose condemnation from of old lingereth not, and their perdition doth not slumber.
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Uttering pompous discourses of inanity, ensnaring by the lusts of the flesh, by lascivious impurities, those who had truly escaped from such as live in a course of delusion.
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Yet I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there some who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to lay a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices, and to commit whoredom.
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Yet I have a few things against thee, because thou hast suffered that woman Jezabel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead my servants into error, to commit whoredom, and eat the idol sacrifices.
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Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to gratify its passions.
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but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.
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Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:
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not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;
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Affections » Should be set upon the people of God
In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:
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Therefore we were comforted in your consolation; and exceeding abundantly the more rejoiced we in the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. For if I have boasted of you to him in any thing, I am not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so our boasting of you to Titus hath been found truth. And his bowels more abundantly yearn over you, when he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. read more.
I rejoice therefore that in every thing I have confidence in you.
I rejoice therefore that in every thing I have confidence in you.
So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.
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Affections » Should not grow cold
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will grow cool.
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What then was your blessedness, for I bear witness to you that, if it were possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and given them to me.
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Yet have I a charge against thee, that thou art gone back from thy first love.
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Affections » Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
And they on the rock, are such as when they have heard, with joy embrace the word; and these have not root, who for a time believe, and in a season of trial apostasize.
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Affections » Should be set upon the house and worship of God
Affections » Should be set upon the commandments of God
Affections » Of the wicked, are unnatural and perverted
unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful:
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unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness,
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especially such as walk after the flesh in the eager pursuit of defilement, and despise government. Daring, self-sufficient, they tremble not at dignities, railing against them.
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Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
It is good indeed to be zealously affected in a good cause always, and not only when I am present with you.
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Affections » Of saints, supremely set on God
Affections » Christ claims the first place in
He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.
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If any man cometh after me, and hateth not father, and mother, and wife and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
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Affections » Should be supremely set upon God
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.
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Affections » Carnal affections crucified in saints
knowing this, that our old man hath been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
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But they who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and irregular appetites.
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Affections » Should be set upon heavenly things
IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Fix your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.
Affections » Blessedness of making God the object of
Affections » Enkindled by communion with Christ
And they said to each other, Did not our hearts burn within us, as he talked with us on the road, and as he distinctly opened to us the scriptures?
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Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to gratify its passions.
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but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, that I may not by any means, after having preached to others, myself become reprobate.
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Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:
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not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;
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Affections » Should be set » Upon the commandments of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon the people of God
In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:
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So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.
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Therefore we were comforted in your consolation; and exceeding abundantly the more rejoiced we in the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. For if I have boasted of you to him in any thing, I am not ashamed; but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so our boasting of you to Titus hath been found truth. And his bowels more abundantly yearn over you, when he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the house and worship of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon heavenly things
IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Fix your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.
Man » Possessed of » Affections
Fix your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.
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