Thematic Bible: Affections

For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ. Verse Concepts

They are zealous for you, but not well. But they only desire to shut you out, that you be zealous to them. Verse Concepts

For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts, Verse Concepts

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep. Verse Concepts

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error; Verse Concepts

But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication. Verse Concepts

But I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices. Verse Concepts

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. Verse Concepts

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh. Verse Concepts

But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected. Verse Concepts

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry), Verse Concepts

(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God), Verse Concepts

As to the saints in the earth, they are the excellent, in whom is all my delight. Verse Concepts

in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor. Verse Concepts

Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort, and we rather rejoiced more abundantly over the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. For if I have boasted anything about you to him, I was not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting as to Titus became truth. And his tender feelings are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, as you received him with fear and trembling. read more.
Therefore I rejoice that I have confidence in you in everything.

So affectionately longing for you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us. Verse Concepts

Then they believed His Words; they sang His praise. They hurried and forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel;

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

What then was your blessedness? For I bear you record that, if you were able, plucking out your eyes, you would have given them to me. Verse Concepts

But I have against you that you left your first love. Verse Concepts

Cry aloud, do not spare, lift up your voice like a ram's horn, and show My people their rebellion, 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 one who did not forget the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God.

And they come to you as the people come, 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 unjust gain. And lo, you are to them as a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, and able to play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

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

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

To the Chief Musician. On Gittith. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How lovely are Your tabernacles, O Jehovah of Hosts! My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God.

And also, because I have delighted in the house of my God, out of my own treasure of gold and silver I have given to the house of my God over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, Verse Concepts

Jehovah, I have loved the dwelling place of Your house, and the place where Your honor dwells. Verse Concepts

The Precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the Commandments of Jehovah are pure, giving light to the eyes. The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of Jehovah are true and righteous altogether, more to be desired than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

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

MEM: Oh how I love Your Law! It is my meditation all the day. Verse Concepts

How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth! Verse Concepts

My soul has kept Your testimonies; and I love them very much. Verse Concepts

undiscerning, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; Verse Concepts

without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good, Verse Concepts

and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil. Verse Concepts

For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me. Verse Concepts

My zeal has eaten me up, because my enemies have forgotten Your Words. Verse Concepts

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

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation; for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God. Verse Concepts

Whom have I in Heaven? And besides You I desire none on earth. Verse Concepts

With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me wander from Your Commandments. Verse Concepts

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he 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 father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. Verse Concepts

And you shall love Jehovah 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

Then hear, O, Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may be well with you, and that you may greatly multiply, as Jehovah, the God of our 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 in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin. Verse Concepts

But those belonging to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. Verse Concepts

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Be mindful of things above, not on things on the earth.

Because He has set His love on Me, therefore I will deliver Him; I will set Him on high, because He has known My name. Verse Concepts

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