Bible Verses About Affections

What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.

Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.

Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.

But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.