24 Bible Verses about Affection

There is no limit to our affection for you, but you are limited in your own affection [for us].

Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value].

For this reason God gave them over to degrading and vile passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural [a function contrary to nature],

For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus [whose great love fills me].

Be devoted to one another with [authentic] brotherly affection [as members of one family], give preference to one another in honor;

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature together with its passions and appetites.

[and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good,

and in your godliness, brotherly affection, and in your brotherly affection, [develop Christian] love [that is, learn to unselfishly seek the best for others and to do things for their benefit].

Moreover, because I delight in the house of my God, the [personal] treasure that I have of gold and silver, I give to the house of my God, in addition to all that I have already provided for the holy house:

“The Lord did not love you and choose you because you were greater in number than any of the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

The husband must fulfill his [marital] duty to his wife [with good will and kindness], and likewise the wife to her husband.

So put to death and deprive of power the evil longings of your earthly body [with its sensual, self-centered instincts] immorality, impurity, sinful passion, evil desire, and greed, which is [a kind of] idolatry [because it replaces your devotion to God].

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.

Yet the Lord had a delight in loving your fathers and set His affection on them, and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.