Bible Verses About The Affections

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

As for the holy ones who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. The LORD’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

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.

How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of Hosts!

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

“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 soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

How I love your Torah! It is my meditation all day.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

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

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

“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.