Bible Verses About The Affections

Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the things which the Lord hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath promised thee a land flowing with milk and honey.

Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.

Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon the name of the Lord, our God.

They are bound, and have fallen: but we are risen, and are set upright.

O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.

My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.

Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.

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.

Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.

Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.

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 soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

¶ MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

¶ How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

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

¶ My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

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.