Bible Verses About Affections

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a shofar, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

They said one to another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But put on the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Messiah.