Thematic Bible: Affections

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

They are zealous of you, but not for good; yea, they would exclude you, that you might be zealous of them. Verse Concepts

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

And through covetousness shall they with false words exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not. Verse Concepts

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that have just escaped from them who live in error. Verse Concepts

But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. Verse Concepts

Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. Verse Concepts

For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. Verse Concepts

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. Verse Concepts

But I roughly treat my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified. Verse Concepts

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

Not in the lust of passion, even as the Gentiles who know not God: Verse Concepts

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the noble, in whom is all my delight. Verse Concepts

Be tender loving one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; Verse Concepts

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

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear unto us. Verse Concepts

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

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall grow cold. Verse Concepts

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

Nevertheless I have somewhat against you, because you have left your first love. Verse Concepts

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

And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness. And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not.

Those on the rock are they, who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for awhile 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 inquire in his temple. Verse Concepts

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.] How lovely are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, I have of my own things, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, Verse Concepts

LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells. 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 forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your judgments at all times. Verse Concepts

[Mem] O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day. Verse Concepts

How sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Verse Concepts

My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. Verse Concepts

Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Verse Concepts

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Verse Concepts

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of the glorious ones. Verse Concepts

For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me. Verse Concepts

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

But it is good to be zealous always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. Verse Concepts

[To the Chief Musician. A maschil, for the Sons of Korah.] As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God. Verse Concepts

Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides you. Verse Concepts

With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your 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 any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Verse Concepts

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Verse Concepts

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment. Verse Concepts

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, 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 no longer serve sin. Verse Concepts

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Verse Concepts

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

Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I 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 hearts burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? Verse Concepts