24 Bible Verses about Affection

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:

For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of mine own of gold and silver, I give it unto the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.