Bible Verses About Affections

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.

“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.

Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.

Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.

“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.

For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.

Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.