Bible Verses About Affections

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.

A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and there was none to help them.

Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses.

¶ With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

¶ My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.

For they seek me from day to day, and desire to know my ways, as a nation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of their God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God.

And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

And thou art to them as a musical song which is sung with a sweet and agreeable voice: and they hear thy words, and do them not.

He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment.

Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?

Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ: and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.