Thematic Bible: Affections
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Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If still I were pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.
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They are zealously seeking you, not nobly; they are wishing to shut you out, that ye may zealously seek them.
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For of these are those who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, and led on by manifold desires,
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and, in covetousness, will they, with feigned words, make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.
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For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;
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But I have a few things against you, because you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit fornication.
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But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess; and she teaches and seduces My servants to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices.
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Affections » Carnal, should be mortified
for, if ye live according to the flesh, ye are going to die; but, if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its desires.
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But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;
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not in passion of desire, even as the gentiles, who know not God;
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Affections » Should be set upon the people of God
in brotherly love being tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor, preferring one another;
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For this cause, we have been consoled; but, in our consolation, we rejoice the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. For, if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not made ashamed; but, as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our glorying before Titus was found to be truth. And his tender affections are more abundantly toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. read more.
I rejoice, that in everything I have good courage concerning you.
I rejoice, that in everything I have good courage concerning you.
so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not only the Gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.
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Affections » Should not grow cold
and, because lawlessness abounds, the love of many will grow cold.
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Where, then, is your benedictions for me? For I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your eyes, ye would have given them to me!
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But I have it against you, that you left your first love.
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Affections » Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
"And those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root; who, for a season, believe, and in time of temptation 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
without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful;
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without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, fierce, no lovers of good,
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but especially those who walk after the flesh in a desire for pollution, and despise dominion; daring, self-willed, they tremble not, when railing at dignities;
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Affections » Should be zealously engaged for God
But it is good to be zealously sought in a good thing at all times, 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 own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and, further, his own soul 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 mind 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 brought to nought, that we should no more be in bondage to sin;
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And those who are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and desires.
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Affections » Should be set upon heavenly things
If, therefore, ye were raised up with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Keep thinking of the things above, not of the things on the earth,
Affections » Blessedness of making God the object of
Affections » Enkindled by communion with Christ
And they said one to another, "Was not our heart burning within us, as He was talking with us in the way, as He was opening the Scriptures to us!"
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Affections » Carnal affections should be mortified
for, if ye live according to the flesh, ye are going to die; but, if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its desires.
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But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;
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not in passion of desire, even as 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
in brotherly love being tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor, preferring one another;
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so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not only the Gospel of God, but also our own souls, because ye became dear to us.
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For this cause, we have been consoled; but, in our consolation, we rejoice the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. For, if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not made ashamed; but, as we spake all things to you in truth, so also our glorying before Titus was found to be truth. And his tender affections are more abundantly toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
Affections » Should be set » Upon the house and worship of God
Affections » Should be set » Upon heavenly things
If, therefore, ye were raised up with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Keep thinking of the things above, not of the things on the earth,
Man » Possessed of » Affections
Keep thinking of the things above, not of the things on the earth,
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