Thematic Bible: Affections

Am I now trying to gain 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 a slave of Christ! Verse Concepts

They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly. Verse Concepts

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions. Verse Concepts

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep. Verse Concepts

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error. Verse Concepts

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

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. Verse Concepts

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. Verse Concepts

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires. Verse Concepts

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified. Verse Concepts

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry. Verse Concepts

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God. Verse Concepts

As for God's chosen people who are in the land, and the leading officials I admired so much -- Verse Concepts

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another. Verse Concepts

Therefore we have been encouraged. And in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more at the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his spirit. For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has proved true as well. And his affection for you is much greater when he remembers the obedience of you all, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling. read more.
I rejoice because in everything I am fully confident in you.

with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us. Verse Concepts

They believed his promises; they sang praises to him. They quickly forgot what he had done; they did not wait for his instructions.

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

Where then is your sense of happiness now? For I testify about you that if it were possible, you would have pulled out your eyes and given them to me! Verse Concepts

But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love! Verse Concepts

"Shout loudly! Don't be quiet! Yell as loud as a trumpet! Confront my people with their rebellious deeds; confront Jacob's family with their sin! They seek me day after day; they want to know my requirements, like a nation that does what is right and does not reject the law of their God. They ask me for just decrees; they want to be near God.

They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage. Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them.

Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away. Verse Concepts

I have asked the Lord for one thing -- this is what I desire! I want to live in the Lord's house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord and contemplate in his temple. Verse Concepts

For the music director; according to the gittith style; written by the Korahites, a psalm. How lovely is the place where you live, O Lord who rules over all! I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

Now, to show my commitment to the temple of my God, I donate my personal treasure of gold and silver to the temple of my God, in addition to all that I have already supplied for this holy temple. Verse Concepts

O Lord, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed. Verse Concepts

The Lord's precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord's commands are pure and give insight for life. The commands to fear the Lord are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the Lord are trustworthy and absolutely just. They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.

I desperately long to know your regulations at all times. Verse Concepts

(Mem) O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it. Verse Concepts

Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey! Verse Concepts

I keep your rules; I love them greatly. Verse Concepts

senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless. Verse Concepts

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, Verse Concepts

especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones, Verse Concepts

Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you. Verse Concepts

My zeal consumes me, for my enemies forget your instructions. Verse Concepts

However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you. Verse Concepts

For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God! Verse Concepts

Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire no one but you on earth. Verse Concepts

With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands! Verse Concepts

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever 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 even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Verse Concepts

You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength. Verse Concepts

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

Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number -- as the Lord, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey. Verse Concepts

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. Verse Concepts

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

Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

The Lord says, "Because he is devoted to me, I will deliver him; I will protect him because he is loyal to me. Verse Concepts

They said to each other, "Didn't our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?" Verse Concepts