Thematic Bible: Affections

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 wouldn't be a servant of Christ. Verse Concepts

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. Verse Concepts

For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, Verse Concepts

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber. Verse Concepts

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts. Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; Verse Concepts

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God; Verse Concepts

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. Verse Concepts

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another; Verse Concepts

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 confident 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. Verse Concepts

Then they believed his words. They sang his praise. They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. Verse Concepts

What 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. Verse Concepts

But I have this against you, that you left your first love. Verse Concepts

"Cry aloud, don't 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 didn't 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 don't 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 don't 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. Verse Concepts

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple. Verse Concepts

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies! My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. 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, Verse Concepts

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells. Verse Concepts

Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh'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.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times. Verse Concepts

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day. Verse Concepts

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth! Verse Concepts

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly. Verse Concepts

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; Verse Concepts

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, Verse Concepts

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; Verse Concepts

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. Verse Concepts

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words. Verse Concepts

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

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. Verse Concepts

Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you. Verse Concepts

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments. Verse Concepts

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. Verse Concepts

"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple. Verse Concepts

and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Verse Concepts

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.' This is the first commandment. Verse Concepts

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. Verse Concepts

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.

"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. Verse Concepts

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?" Verse Concepts