Thematic Bible: Affections
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Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.
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These men make much of you ??yes, but for dishonest ends; they want to debar you from us, so that you may make much of them.
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Some of them worm their way into families and get hold of the women-folk who feel crushed by the burden of their sins ??wayward creatures of impulse,
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in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.
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By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).
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But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice.
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Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.
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Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.
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No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.
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So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
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not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.
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Affections » Should be set upon the people of God
Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;
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That is what comforts me. And over and above my personal comfort, I was specially delighted at the delight of Titus. You have all set his mind at rest. I told him of my pride in you, and I have not been disappointed. No, just as all I have had to say to you has been true, so all I said about you to Titus, all my pride in you, has also proved true. His own heart goes out to you all the more when he remembers how you all obeyed him, and how you received him with reverence and trembling. read more.
I am glad to have full confidence in you.
I am glad to have full confidence in you.
fain, in our yearning affection for you, to impart not only the gospel of God to you but our very souls as well ??you had so won our love.
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Affections » Should not grow cold
And in most of you love will grow cold by the increase of iniquity;
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Now, what has become of all that? (I can bear witness that you would have torn out your very eyes, if you could, and given me them.)
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But I have this against you: you have given up loving one another as you did at first.
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Affections » Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
Those 'on the rock' are people who on hearing the word welcome it with enthusiasm, but they have no root; they believe for a while and fall away in the hour of trial.
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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
devoid of conscience, false to their word, callous, merciless;
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callous, relentless, scurrilous, dissolute, and savage; they will hate goodness,
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particularly those who fall in with the polluting appetite of the flesh and despise the Powers celestial. Daring, presumptuous creatures! they are not afraid to scoff at the angelic Glories;
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Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
Now it is fine for you to be made much of honestly and all the time ??not simply when I can be with you.
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Affections » Of saints, supremely set on God
Affections » Christ claims the first place in
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:
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"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;
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Affections » Should be supremely set upon God
and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your whole strength.
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Affections » Carnal affections crucified in saints
knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin
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Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.
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Affections » Should be set upon heavenly things
Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God; mind what is above, not what is on earth,
Affections » Blessedness of making God the object of
Affections » Enkindled by communion with Christ
And they said to one another, "Did not our hearts glow within us when he was talking to us on the road, opening up the scriptures for us?"
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Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.
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No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.
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So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
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not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.
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Affections » Should be set » Upon the commandments of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon the people of God
Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;
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fain, in our yearning affection for you, to impart not only the gospel of God to you but our very souls as well ??you had so won our love.
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That is what comforts me. And over and above my personal comfort, I was specially delighted at the delight of Titus. You have all set his mind at rest. I told him of my pride in you, and I have not been disappointed. No, just as all I have had to say to you has been true, so all I said about you to Titus, all my pride in you, has also proved true. His own heart goes out to you all the more when he remembers how you all obeyed him, and how you received him with reverence and trembling.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the house and worship of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon heavenly things
Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God; mind what is above, not what is on earth,
Man » Possessed of » Affections
mind what is above, not what is on earth,
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- Affections Should Not Grow Cold
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- Dead To Sin
- Evil Passions
- Family Love
- Food
- Heart, Affections Of
- In Men's Presence
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