Bible Verses About Affections

and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

To the Overseer. --An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.

For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me.

Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.

Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him--I set him on high, Because he hath known My name.

And they believe in His words, they sing His praise,

They have hasted--forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

Cut me off hath my zeal, For mine adversaries forgot Thy words.

Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins;

Seeing--Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire:

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee--My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

And lo, thou art to them as a singer of doting loves, A pleasant voice, and playing well on an instrument, And they have heard thy words, and they are not doing them.

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this is the first command;

`And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

And they said one to another, `Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'

unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.