Bible Verses About The Affections

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.

Love each other devotedly and with brotherly love; and set examples for each other in showing respect.

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.

This is the reason we have been encouraged. Besides our own encouragement, we had the even greater joy of seeing how happy Titus was, because all of you set his mind at rest.

For I had boasted somewhat about you to him, and now I have not been made to look foolish. On the contrary, just as everything we have said to you is true, so too our boasting in front of Titus has proved true.

And his affection for you is all the greater as he remembers how ready you were to obey and how you received him with reverence and respect.

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.

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.

So if you were raised along with the Messiah, then seek the things above, where the Messiah is sitting at the right hand of God.

Focus your minds on the things above, not on things here on earth.

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

We were so devoted to you that we were glad to share with you not only God’s Good News but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.