Thematic Bible: Affections
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Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
For do I now obey man, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I could not have been a servant of Christ.
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They are zealous for you, but not well, but they wish to exclude you that you may be zealous for them.
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Of these are those who go into the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by various desires,
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and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.
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For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,
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But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.
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But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says she is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication and eat things offered to idols.
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Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.
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but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.
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but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.
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Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,
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not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,
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Affections » Should be set upon the people of God
be kindly disposed one to another with brotherly love, in honor prefer one another,
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On this account we were comforted. And in addition to our comfort, we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all; for if I had boasted of you to him I was not ashamed, but as we said all things to you in truth, so also the boasting of you to Titus was truth. And his affection is more abundant for you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him. read more.
I rejoice that I have confidence in you in every thing.
I rejoice that I have confidence in you in every thing.
so being greatly desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own souls, because you were dear to us.
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Affections » Should not grow cold
and because wickedness shall abound the love of the many shall become cold:
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What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have dug out your eyes and have given them to me.
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But I have against you that you have left your first love.
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Affections » Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, and they have no root; they believe for a time, and in a time of trial 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
unintelligent, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful,
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without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good,
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but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,
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Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
It is good to be zealous for a good object 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 loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
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If any one comes to me, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and still more his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
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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 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 should no longer serve sin;
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And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.
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Affections » Should be set upon heavenly things
IF you, therefore, have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God; employ your minds on 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 the other, Did not our hearts burn within us when he spoke to us on the way? when he opened to us the Scriptures?
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Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live.
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but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.
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but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.
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Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,
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not with inordinate desires like 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
be kindly disposed one to another with brotherly love, in honor prefer one another,
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so being greatly desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own souls, because you were dear to us.
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On this account we were comforted. And in addition to our comfort, we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all; for if I had boasted of you to him I was not ashamed, but as we said all things to you in truth, so also the boasting of you to Titus was truth. And his affection is more abundant for you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the house and worship of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon heavenly things
IF you, therefore, have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God; employ your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.
Man » Possessed of » Affections
employ your minds on things above, not on things on the earth.
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