Bible Verses About Affections

and you are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources.

For the leader. A maskil of the descendants of Korach: Just as a deer longs for running streams, God, I long for you.

because zeal for your house is eating me up, and on me are falling the insults of those insulting you.

Whom do I have in heaven but you? And with you, I lack nothing on earth.

"Because he loves me, I will rescue him; because he knows my name, I will protect him.

Then they believed his words, and they sang his praise.

But soon they forgot his deeds and wouldn't wait for his counsel.

I seek you with all my heart; don't let me stray from your mitzvot.

My zeal is destroying me, because my foes have forgotten your words.

Shout out loud! Don't hold back! Raise your voice like a shofar! Proclaim to my people what rebels they are, to the house of Ya'akov their sins.

"Oh yes, they seek me day after day and [claim to] delight in knowing my ways. As if they were an upright nation that had not abandoned the rulings of their God, they ask me for just rulings and [claim] to take pleasure in closeness to God,

So then they come to you, as people do, sit in front of you as my people, and hear your words; but they don't act on them. For with their mouths they flatter you, but their hearts are set on their own self-interest;

so for them you are like a love-song sung by someone with a nice voice who can play an instrument well - they hear your words, but they don't act on them.

Whoever loves his father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than he loves me is not worthy of me.

and many people's love will grow cold because of increased distance from Torah.

and you are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.'

The ones on rock are those who, when they hear the word, accept it with joy; but these have no root -- they go on trusting for awhile; but when a time of testing comes, they apostatize.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life besides, he cannot be my talmid.

They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn inside us as he spoke to us on the road, opening up the Tanakh to us?”

they are brainless, faithless, heartless and ruthless.

We know that our old self was put to death on the execution-stake with him, so that the entire body of our sinful propensities might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

For if you live according to your old nature, you will certainly die; but if, by the Spirit, you keep putting to death the practices of the body, you will live.

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Yeshua the Messiah; and don’t waste your time thinking about how to provide for the sinful desires of your old nature.

I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that, after proclaiming the Good News to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God’s approval! Or that I’m trying to cater to people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.