Thematic Bible: Affections

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Verse Concepts

They zealously affect you, but not well; for, they would exclude you, that ye may affect them. Verse Concepts

For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts; Verse Concepts

And through covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. Verse Concepts

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that had quite escaped from them who live in error. Verse Concepts

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit lewdness. Verse Concepts

Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit lewdness, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. Verse Concepts

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Verse Concepts

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the lusts of flesh. Verse Concepts

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away. Verse Concepts

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: Verse Concepts

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles who know not God: Verse Concepts

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. Verse Concepts

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; Verse Concepts

Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: and exceedingly the more we rejoiced for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. For if I have boasted any thing to him concerning you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth. And his tender affection is more abundant towards you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. read more.
I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear to us. Verse Concepts

Then they believed his words; they sang his praise. They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

And because iniquity will abound, the love of many will become cold. Verse Concepts

What then was the blessedness ye spoke of; for I bear you testimony, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Verse Concepts

Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Verse Concepts

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And lo, thou art to them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do not perform them.

They on the rock are they, who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. Verse Concepts

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. Verse Concepts

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longeth, and even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of my own possessions, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, Verse Concepts

LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy honor dwelleth. Verse Concepts

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb.

My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath to thy judgments at all times. Verse Concepts

MEM. O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Verse Concepts

How sweet are thy words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Verse Concepts

My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. Verse Concepts

Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Verse Concepts

Without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Verse Concepts

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Verse Concepts

For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me. Verse Concepts

My zeal hath consumed me; because my enemies have forgotten thy words. Verse Concepts

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. Verse Concepts

To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul panteth after thee, O God. Verse Concepts

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. Verse Concepts

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

If any man cometh to me, and hateth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Verse Concepts

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Verse Concepts

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: this is the first commandment. Verse Concepts

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Verse Concepts

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Verse Concepts

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts. Verse Concepts

If ye then be raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. Verse Concepts

And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? Verse Concepts