Thematic Bible: Affections

For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ. Verse Concepts

They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them [zealously]. Verse Concepts

For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires, Verse Concepts

And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation [from] long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. Verse Concepts

{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error, Verse Concepts

But I have a few [things] against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. Verse Concepts

But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. Verse Concepts

For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Verse Concepts

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh. Verse Concepts

But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified. Verse Concepts

Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry, Verse Concepts

not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God; Verse Concepts

With regard to [the] saints who [are] in the land, they [are the] noble ones in [whom is] all my desire. Verse Concepts

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor, Verse Concepts

Because of this we have been encouraged, and in addition to our encouragement, we rejoiced much more over the joy of Titus, because his spirit had been refreshed by all of you. For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I have not been put to shame, but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, thus also our boasting to Titus {has proven to be true}. And his affection for you is all the more [when he] remembers the obedience of all of you as you welcomed him with fear and trembling. read more.
I rejoice, because in everything I am completely confident in you.

Longing for you in this way, we determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you had become dear to us. Verse Concepts

Then they believed his words; they sang his praise. They quickly forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

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

So where [is] your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes [and] given [them] to me! Verse Concepts

But I have [this] against you: that you have left your first love. Verse Concepts

"Call with [the] throat; you must not keep back! lift up your voice like trumpet, and declare to my people their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me day [by] day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that {practiced} righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for {righteous judgments}, they desire the closeness of God.

And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain. Now, look! You [are] to them like {a sensual song}, beautiful of voice and {played well on an instrument}, and they hear your words, {but they are not doing them}.

And those on the rock [are those] who receive the word with joy when they hear [it], and these do not have [enough] root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away. Verse Concepts

One [thing] I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: [that] I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider his temple. Verse Concepts

How lovely [are] your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts! My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

And moreover, with respect to my provisions for the house of my God I have a treasure of gold and silver that I have given to the house of my God above all that I have provided for the holy house: Verse Concepts

O Yahweh, I love [the] dwelling of your house, and {the place where your glory abides}. Verse Concepts

The precepts of Yahweh [are] right, making [the] heart rejoice. The command of Yahweh [is] pure, enlightening [the] eyes. The fear of Yahweh [is] pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of Yahweh [are] true; they are righteous altogether, more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey [in the] comb.

My soul is crushed with longing for your ordinances at all times. Verse Concepts

How I love your law! The whole day it [is] my meditation. Verse Concepts

How smooth [are] your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth. Verse Concepts

My soul heeds your testimonies, and I love them exceedingly. Verse Concepts

senseless, faithless, unfeeling, unmerciful, Verse Concepts

hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good, Verse Concepts

and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust and who despise authority. Bold [and] arrogant, they do not tremble in awe [as they] blaspheme majestic beings, Verse Concepts

because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me. Verse Concepts

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

But [it is] good to be sought zealously in good at all times, and not only when I am present with you. Verse Concepts

As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. Verse Concepts

Whom do I have in the heavens [except you]? And with you I have no [other] desire on earth. Verse Concepts

With my whole heart I have sought you; do not let me stray from your commands. Verse Concepts

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Verse Concepts

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple. Verse Concepts

And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might. Verse Concepts

And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.' Verse Concepts

And you shall hear, Israel, and be careful to observe [these instructions], so that {it may go well for you} and that you may multiply greatly, [just] as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, {promised} you, [in] a land with milk and honey. Verse Concepts

knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with [him], in order that the body of sin may be done away with, [that] we may no longer be enslaved to sin. Verse Concepts

Now those {who belong to Christ} have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires. Verse Concepts

Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not [on] the things on earth.

Because he loves me, therefore I will deliver him; I will protect him because he knows my name. Verse Concepts

And they said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?" Verse Concepts