Thematic Bible: Affections
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Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate men, or God? Am I seeking to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
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Certain people are seeking your favor, but with no honorable object. No, indeed, they want to isolate you, so that you will have to seek their favor.
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For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women--women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions,
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In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.
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With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.
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Yet I have a few things against you--You have among you those who hold to the Teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts.
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Yet I have this against you--You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, till they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.
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Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.
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No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.
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No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.
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Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.
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And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;
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Affections » Should be set upon the people of God
In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;
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In addition to the encouragement that this gave us, we were made far happier still by the happiness of Titus for his heart has been cheered by you all. Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, you did not put me to shame; but, just as every thing we had said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has also proved to be the truth. And his affection for you is all the greater, as he remembers the deference that you all showed him, and recalls how you received him with anxious care. read more.
I am glad that I can feel perfect confidence in you.
I am glad that I can feel perfect confidence in you.
In our strong affection for you, that seemed to us the best way of sharing with you, not only God's Good news, but our very lives as well--so dear had you become to us.
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Affections » Should not grow cold
and, owing to the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
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What has become then, of your blessings? For I can bear witness that, had it been possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me!
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But this I have against you--You have abandoned your first love.
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Affections » Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
By the seed which fell upon the rock are meant those who, as soon as they hear the Message, welcome it joyfully; but they have no root, and believe it only for a time, and, when the time of temptation comes, they draw back.
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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
They were undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection or pity.
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incapable of affection, merciless, slanderous, wanting in self-control, brutal, careless of the right,
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especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty, maligning them,
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Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
It is always honorable to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, and not only when I am with you, my dear children--
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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; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.
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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
We recognize the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of Sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to Sin.
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And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.
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Affections » Should be set upon heavenly things
Since, therefore, you were raised to Life with the Christ, seek for the things that are above; for it is there that the Christ is 'seated at the right hand of God.' Fix your thoughts upon the things that are above, not upon those that are on earth.
Affections » Blessedness of making God the object of
Affections » Enkindled by communion with Christ
"How our hearts glowed," the disciples said to each other, "while he was talking to us on the road, and when he explained the Scriptures to us!"
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Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.
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No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.
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No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.
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Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.
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And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of 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 showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;
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In our strong affection for you, that seemed to us the best way of sharing with you, not only God's Good news, but our very lives as well--so dear had you become to us.
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In addition to the encouragement that this gave us, we were made far happier still by the happiness of Titus for his heart has been cheered by you all. Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, you did not put me to shame; but, just as every thing we had said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has also proved to be the truth. And his affection for you is all the greater, as he remembers the deference that you all showed him, and recalls how you received him with anxious care.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the house and worship of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon heavenly things
Since, therefore, you were raised to Life with the Christ, seek for the things that are above; for it is there that the Christ is 'seated at the right hand of God.' Fix your thoughts upon the things that are above, not upon those that are on earth.
Man » Possessed of » Affections
Fix your thoughts upon the things that are above, not upon those that are on earth.
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- Affection
- Affection For God's People
- Affections Should Not Grow Cold
- Character Of Wicked
- Covetousness
- Crucifying Our Flesh
- Dead To Sin
- Evil Passions
- Family Love
- Food
- Heart, Affections Of
- In Men's Presence
- Licentiousness