Bible Verses About Affections

and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.

Whom have I in heavenbut thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

Then believed they his words; They sang his praise.

They soon forgat his works; They waited not for his counsel,

With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments.

My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten thy words.

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near unto God.

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.

And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.

And those on the rock are they who, when they have heard, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.