Thematic Bible: Affections

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be. Verse Concepts

they are zealous for you -- yet not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous; Verse Concepts

for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold, Verse Concepts

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber. Verse Concepts

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error, Verse Concepts

'But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom; Verse Concepts

'But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat; Verse Concepts

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live; Verse Concepts

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires. Verse Concepts

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved. Verse Concepts

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry -- Verse Concepts

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God, Verse Concepts

For the holy ones who are in the land, And the honourable, all my delight is in them. Verse Concepts

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another; Verse Concepts

because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all; because if anything to him in your behalf I have boasted, I was not put to shame; but as all things in truth we did speak to you, so also our boasting before Titus became truth, and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him; read more.
I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.

so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us, Verse Concepts

And they believe in His words, they sing His praise, They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold; Verse Concepts

what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me; Verse Concepts

'But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave! Verse Concepts

Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins; Seeing -- Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire:

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going. And lo, thou art to them as a singer of doting loves, A pleasant voice, and playing well on an instrument, And they have heard thy words, and they are not doing them.

'And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away. Verse Concepts

One thing I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple. Verse Concepts

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' -- A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, Jehovah of Hosts! My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,

And again, because of my delighting in the house of my God, the substance I have -- a peculiar treasure of gold and silver -- I have given for the house of my God, even over and above all I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary: Verse Concepts

Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour. Verse Concepts

The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes, The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous -- together. They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times. Verse Concepts

Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation. Verse Concepts

How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth. Verse Concepts

Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly. Verse Concepts

unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful; Verse Concepts

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good, Verse Concepts

and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of, Verse Concepts

For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me. Verse Concepts

Cut me off hath my zeal, For mine adversaries forgot Thy words. Verse Concepts

and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you; Verse Concepts

To the Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God. Verse Concepts

Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth. Verse Concepts

With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands. Verse Concepts

'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me, Verse Concepts

'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple; Verse Concepts

and thou hast loved Jehovah 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 out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength -- this is the first command; Verse Concepts

And thou hast heard, O Israel, and observed to do, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest multiply exceedingly, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee, in the land flowing with milk and honey. Verse Concepts

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin; Verse Concepts

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires; Verse Concepts

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him -- I set him on high, Because he hath known My name. Verse Concepts

And they said one to another, 'Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?' Verse Concepts