Thematic Bible: Affections

Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant. Verse Concepts

These people who have been instructing you are devoted to you, but not in a good way. They want you to avoid me so that you will be devoted to them. Verse Concepts

For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires. Verse Concepts

In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. The ancient verdict against them is still in force, and their destruction is not delayed. Verse Concepts

By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error. Verse Concepts

But I have a few things against you: You have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, the one who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality. Verse Concepts

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and who teaches and leads my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. Verse Concepts

For if you live according to human nature, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continuously put to death the activities of the body, you will live. Verse Concepts

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires. Verse Concepts

No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified. Verse Concepts

So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry). Verse Concepts

not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God. Verse Concepts

As for the saints that are in the land, they are noble, and all my delight is in them. Verse Concepts

Be devoted to each other with mutual affection. Excel at showing respect for each other. Verse Concepts

This is what comforted us. In addition to our own comfort, we were even more delighted at the joy of Titus, because his spirit had been set at rest by all of you. For if I have been doing some boasting about you to him, I have never been ashamed of it. Moreover, since everything we told you was true, our boasting to Titus has also proved to be true. His affection for you is even greater as he remembers how obedient all of you were and how you welcomed him with fear and trembling. read more.
I rejoice that I can have complete confidence in you.

We cared so deeply for you that we were determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but our very lives. That is how dear you were to us. Verse Concepts

Then they believed his word and sung his praise. But they quickly forgot his deeds and did not wait for his counsel.

and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many people will grow cold. Verse Concepts

What, then, happened to your positive attitude? For I testify that if it had been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. Verse Concepts

However, I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first. Verse Concepts

"Shout aloud! Don't hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their rebellions, and to the house of Jacob their sins. They seek me day after day, and are eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practices righteousness and has not forsaken the justice of their God. "They ask me to reveal just decisions; they are eager to draw near to God.

Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words and then they don't do what you say because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests. As far as they are concerned, you sing romantic songs with a beautiful voice and play a musical instrument well. They'll listen to what you have to say, but they won't put it into practice!

The ones on the stony ground are the people who joyfully welcome the word when they hear it. But since they don't have any roots, they believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away. Verse Concepts

I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I really seek: that I may remain in the LORD's Temple all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD; and to inquire in his Temple. Verse Concepts

How lovely are your dwelling places, LORD of the Heavenly Armies. I desire and long for the Temple courts of the LORD. My heart and body sing for joy to the living God.

"In addition to everything that I have supplied for the Temple, it pleases me to provide my own treasure of gold and silver, so because of my love for the Temple of my God I hereby give to the Temple of my God the following: Verse Concepts

LORD, I love the dwelling place that is your house, the place where your glory resides. Verse Concepts

The precepts of the LORD are upright, making the heart rejoice. The commandment of the LORD is pure, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, standing forever. The judgments of the LORD are true; they are altogether righteous. They are more desirable than gold, even much fine gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb.

My soul is consumed with longing for your decrees at all times. Verse Concepts

How I love your instruction! Every day it is my meditation. Verse Concepts

How pleasing is what you have to say to me tasting better than honey. Verse Concepts

My soul treasures your decrees, and I love them deeply. Verse Concepts

foolish, faithless, heartless, and ruthless. Verse Concepts

unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good, Verse Concepts

especially those who satisfy their flesh by indulging in its passions and who despise authority. Verse Concepts

Zeal for your house consumes me, and the mockeries of those who insult you fall on me. Verse Concepts

My zeal consumes me because my enemies forget your words. Verse Concepts

(Now it is always good to be devoted to a good cause, even when I am not with you.) Verse Concepts

As an antelope pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, God. Verse Concepts

Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire nothing on this earth. Verse Concepts

I have sought you with all of my heart; do not let me drift away from your commands. Verse Concepts

"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. Verse Concepts

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple. Verse Concepts

You are to love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. Verse Concepts

and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' Verse Concepts

Listen, Israel! Be careful to obey, so that life may go well for you and that you may increase greatly. Just as the LORD God of your ancestors told you, you'll have a land flowing with milk and honey. Verse Concepts

We know that our old natures were crucified with him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin. Verse Concepts

Now those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. Verse Concepts

Therefore, if you have been raised with the Messiah, keep focusing on the things that are above, where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God. Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.

Because he has focused his love on me, I will deliver him. I will protect him because he knows my name. Verse Concepts

Then they asked each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?" Verse Concepts