Bible Verses About The Affections

Therefore listen, Isra'el, and take care to obey, so that things will go well with you, and so that you will increase greatly, as ADONAI, the God of your ancestors, promised you by giving you a land flowing with milk and honey.

In addition, because my desire is set on the house of my God, since I have my own supply of gold and silver, I herewith give it to the house of my God - over and above everything I have prepared for the holy house -

The holy people in the land are the ones who are worthy of honor; all my pleasure is in them.

The precepts of ADONAI are right, rejoicing the heart. The mitzvah of ADONAI is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of ADONAI is clean, enduring forever. The rulings of ADONAI are true, they are righteous altogether,

more desirable than gold, than much fine gold, also sweeter than honey or drippings from the honeycomb.

ADONAI, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory abides.

Just one thing have I asked of ADONAI; only this will I seek: to live in the house of ADONAI all the days of my life, to see the beauty of ADONAI and visit in his temple.

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.

For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of the sons of Korach: How deeply loved are your dwelling-places, ADONAI-Tzva'ot!

My soul yearns, yes, faints with longing for the courtyards of ADONAI; my heart and body cry for joy to the living God.

"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.

I am continually consumed with longing for your rulings.

How I love your Torah! I meditate on it all day.

How sweet to my tongue is your promise, truly sweeter than honey in my mouth!

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

My soul observes your instruction, and I love it so much!

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;