Thematic Bible: Affections
Thematic Bible
Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
They zealously seek you, but for no good purpose; they desire to alienate you, that you may be zealous for them.
For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction is not asleep.
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who barely escape from those who live in error;
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Put to death, therefore, whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Verse Concepts
GluttonyLicentiousnessCovetingFornicationAdultery, SpiritualBodily LimbsBaptism, significance ofdesiresThe Sin NatureGreed, Believers' Response ToLustLove, In RelationshipsSexual AberrationsSelf DenialMisersMortificationOpposition, To Sin And EvilPurity, Moral And SpiritualSelf DisciplineSelf IndulgenceSexualitySin, Avoidance OfSpiritual Warfare, Enemies InLasciviousness
Sexual ChastityCovetousness, Nature ofIdolatry Consists OfAppetite, SexualImpuritySexual RelationshipsCrucifying Our FleshEvil PassionsDeath To SelfAffection, EvilDead To SinEvil DesiresIdolatryAvoid ImmoralityNature Of IdolatryCovetousnessAffectionsexGreedMoviesSexual ImmoralityPassionBeing GaySexual Purity
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who do not know God;
Affections » Should be set upon the people of God
As for the holy ones who are in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; outdo one another in showing honor;
Verse Concepts
Acts of KindnessAffection, Kinds OfBrotherly KindnessCommitment, to God's peopleHonorLove, Abuse OfLoyaltyMinistry, In The ChurchUnselfishnessBrotherhoodCaringCaring For OthersAffection For God's PeopleOutdoingHonour The HonourableLove Fellow Christians!Being Devoted to GodAffectionRespectLoving Yourself
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth. His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him. read more.
I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
Affections » Should not grow cold
Then they believed his words. They sang his praise. They soon forgot his works. They did not wait for his counsel,
And because lawlessness is multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
Where was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
Affections » Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
"Cry aloud, do not spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.
Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
Affections » Should be set upon the house and worship of God
One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the LORD's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of hosts. My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
Affections » Should be set upon the commandments of God
The LORD's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. The LORD's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
MEM. How I love your Law. It is my meditation all day.
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth.
My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
Affections » Of the wicked, are unnatural and perverted
foolish, promise-breakers, heartless, unmerciful;
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, hateful of good,
but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
Affections » Of saints, supremely set on God
Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.
With my whole heart, I have sought you. Do not let me wander from your commandments.
Affections » Christ claims the first place in
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
daughtersLoving Your MotherFathers, Responsibilities Ofdiscipleship, cost ofMothers, Responsibilities OfSelf SacrificeSonsHeart, Affections OfLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfLove Towards Christ, Shown ByLove For GodUnworthinessMore ThanNot Honouring ParentsThe Need To Love ChristMothersmomsLoving YourselfSelf Worth
"If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Verse Concepts
Giving, Of OneselfBad ThingsLoving Your MotherAdultery and DivorceFathers, Responsibilities Ofdiscipleship, cost ofMothers, Responsibilities OfParentsForsaking All OthersSelf SacrificeSistersFamilyHatred Between RelativesPeople's Inability To Serve GodComing To ChristNot Maintaining LifeNot HatingNot Honouring Parentsdiscipleship, nature of
Affections » Should be supremely set upon God
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
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.'
Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Affections » Carnal affections crucified in saints
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Affections » Should be set upon heavenly things
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
Affections » Blessedness of making God the object of
"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.
Affections » Enkindled by communion with Christ
They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"
Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
Put to death, therefore, whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Verse Concepts
GluttonyLicentiousnessCovetingFornicationAdultery, SpiritualBodily LimbsBaptism, significance ofdesiresThe Sin NatureGreed, Believers' Response ToLustLove, In RelationshipsSexual AberrationsSelf DenialMisersMortificationOpposition, To Sin And EvilPurity, Moral And SpiritualSelf DisciplineSelf IndulgenceSexualitySin, Avoidance OfSpiritual Warfare, Enemies InLasciviousness
Sexual ChastityCovetousness, Nature ofIdolatry Consists OfAppetite, SexualImpuritySexual RelationshipsCrucifying Our FleshEvil PassionsDeath To SelfAffection, EvilDead To SinEvil DesiresIdolatryAvoid ImmoralityNature Of IdolatryCovetousnessAffectionsexGreedMoviesSexual ImmoralityPassionBeing GaySexual Purity
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who do not know God;
Affections » Should be set » Upon the commandments of God
The LORD's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. The LORD's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
MEM. How I love your Law. It is my meditation all day.
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth.
My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the people of God
As for the holy ones who are in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; outdo one another in showing honor;
Verse Concepts
Acts of KindnessAffection, Kinds OfBrotherly KindnessCommitment, to God's peopleHonorLove, Abuse OfLoyaltyMinistry, In The ChurchUnselfishnessBrotherhoodCaringCaring For OthersAffection For God's PeopleOutdoingHonour The HonourableLove Fellow Christians!Being Devoted to GodAffectionRespectLoving Yourself
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth. His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the house and worship of God
One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the LORD's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of hosts. My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
Affections » Should be set » Upon heavenly things
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
Man » Possessed of » Affections
In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
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- Evil Passions
- Family Love
- Food
- Heart, Affections Of
- In Men's Presence
- Licentiousness