Thematic Bible: Affections
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Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
For do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Or am I endeavoring to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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They show a zeal for you, but not in honesty; yea, they wish to exclude you, that ye may be zealous for them.
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For of these are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
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and in covetousness will they with feigned words make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment long ago ordained lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
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For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they allure in the lusts of the flesh, by dissolute ways, such as were in some measure escaping from those who live in error;
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But I have a few things against thee; thou hast there them that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumblingblock in the way of the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
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But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest thy wife Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess, and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
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Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are sure to die; but if by the Spirit ye make an end of the deeds of the body, ye will live.
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but clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and think not about satisfying the lusts of the flesh.
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but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.
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Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
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not in the passion of lust, even as the gentiles who know not God;
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Affections » Should be set upon the people of God
In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in honor, give each other the preference.
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Therefore we have been comforted; but in our comfort we rejoiced still more on account of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all; for if in anything I have boasted to him of you, I am not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting, which we made before Titus, was found to be truth; and his affection is more abundant toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. read more.
I rejoice that in every thing I have confidence in you.
I rejoice that in every thing I have confidence in you.
so having a strong affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.
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Affections » Should not grow cold
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of the many will wax cold.
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How great then was your boasting of happiness! for I bear you witness, that if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.
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But I have this against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.
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Affections » Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
Those on the rocky ground are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root; and for a while they believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
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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
senseless, faithless, without natural affection, without pity;
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natural affection, implacable, slanderers, incontinent, fierce, without love for what is good,
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but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. Presumptuous, selfwilled, they are not afraid to rail at dignities;
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Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
But it is good to be an object of zeal in what is good always, and not only when I am present with you.
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Affections » Of saints, supremely set on God
Affections » Christ claims the first place in
He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me;
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If any one cometh to me, and hateth not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
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Affections » Should be supremely set upon God
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength."
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Affections » Carnal affections crucified in saints
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin;
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And they who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts.
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Affections » Should be set upon heavenly things
If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on things on the earth.
Affections » Blessedness of making God the object of
Affections » Enkindled by communion with Christ
And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us on the way, while he opened to us the Scriptures?
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Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
For if ye live according to the flesh, ye are sure to die; but if by the Spirit ye make an end of the deeds of the body, ye will live.
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but clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and think not about satisfying the lusts of the flesh.
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but I beat down my body, and bring it into subjection, lest perhaps, when I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected as unworthy.
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Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
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not in the passion of lust, even as the gentiles who know not God;
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Affections » Should be set » Upon the commandments of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon the people of God
In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in honor, give each other the preference.
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so having a strong affection for you, we were willing to impart to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.
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Therefore we have been comforted; but in our comfort we rejoiced still more on account of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all; for if in anything I have boasted to him of you, I am not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting, which we made before Titus, was found to be truth; and his affection is more abundant toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the house and worship of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon heavenly things
If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on things on the earth.
Man » Possessed of » Affections
Set your mind on the things above, not on things on the earth.
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