Bible Verses About Affections: False teachers seek to captivate
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If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Verses on False teachers seek to captivate
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.