Bible Verses About Affections

So what has become of the joy you felt? For I bear you witness that had it been possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.

True, these teachers are zealous for you, but their motives are not good. They want to separate you from us so that you will become zealous for them.

To be zealous is good, provided always that the cause is good. Indeed, whether I am present with you or not,

Moreover, those who belong to the Messiah Yeshua have put their old nature to death on the stake, along with its passions and desires.

Therefore, put to death the earthly parts of your nature — sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed (which is a form of idolatry);

without giving in to lustful desires, like the pagans who don’t know God.

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good,

For some of them worm their way into homes and get control of weak-willed women who are heaped with sins and swayed by various impulses,

In their greed they will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their punishment, decreed long ago, is not idle; their destruction is not asleep!

especially those who follow their old natures in lust for filth and who despise authority. Presumptuous and self-willed, these false teachers do not tremble at insulting angelic beings;

Mouthing grandiosities of nothingness, they play on the desires of the old nature, in order to seduce with debaucheries people who have just begun to escape from those whose way of life is wrong.

But I have this against you: you have lost the love you had at first.

Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: you have some people who hold to the teaching of Bil‘am, who taught Balak to set a trap for the people of Isra’el, so that they would eat food that had been sacrificed to idols and commit sexual sin.

But I have this against you: you continue to tolerate that Izevel woman, the one who claims to be a prophet, but is teaching and deceiving my servants to commit sexual sin and eat food that has been sacrificed to idols.