Thematic Bible: Affections
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Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant.
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These men pay court to you, but not with honourable motives. They want to exclude you, so that you may pay court to them.
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Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,
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Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk. From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.
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For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.
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Yet I have a few things against you, because you have with you some that cling to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block in the way of the descendants of Israel--to eat what had been sacrificed to idols, and commit fornication.
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Yet I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and by her teaching leads astray My servants, so that they commit fornication and eat what has been sacrificed to idols.
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Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live.
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On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.
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but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.
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Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
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that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;
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Affections » Should be set upon the people of God
As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.
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For this reason we feel comforted; and--in addition to this our comfort--we have been filled with all the deeper joy at Titus's joy, because his spirit has been set at rest by you all. For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you has turned out to be the truth. And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with which you welcomed him. read more.
I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.
I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.
Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.
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Affections » Should not grow cold
and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold;
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I ask you, then, what has become of your self-congratulations? For I bear you witness that had it been possible you would have torn out your own eyes and have given them to me.
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Yet I have this against you--that you no longer love Me as you did at first.
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Affections » Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
Those on the rock are the people who on hearing the Message receive it joyfully; but they have no root: for a time they believe, but when trial comes they 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
faithless to their promises, without natural affection, without human pity.
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destitute of natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers. They will have no self-control, but will be brutal, opposed to goodness,
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and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;
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Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
It is always an honourable thing to be courted in an honourable cause; always, and not only when I am with you, my children--
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Affections » Of saints, supremely set on God
Affections » Christ claims the first place in
Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
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"If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
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Affections » Should be supremely set upon God
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind, and thy whole strength.'
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Affections » Carnal affections crucified in saints
This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;
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Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.
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Affections » Should be set upon heavenly things
If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand. Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.
Affections » Blessedness of making God the object of
Affections » Enkindled by communion with Christ
"Were not our hearts," they said to one another, "burning within us while He talked to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?"
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Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live.
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On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.
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but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.
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Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.
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that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;
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Affections » Should be set » Upon the commandments of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon the people of God
As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.
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Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.
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For this reason we feel comforted; and--in addition to this our comfort--we have been filled with all the deeper joy at Titus's joy, because his spirit has been set at rest by you all. For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you has turned out to be the truth. And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety with which you welcomed him.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the house and worship of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon heavenly things
If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand. Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.
Man » Possessed of » Affections
Give your minds to the things that are above, not to the things that are on the earth.
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