Topic
AFFECTIONS
Should be supremely set upon God DEU 6:5; MRK 12:30
Passages on this topic · 60
- Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
- 1 Chronicles 29:3
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,
- Psalms 16:3
As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
- Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Psalms 19:9
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- Psalms 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
- Psalms 26:8
Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
- Psalms 27:4
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
- Psalms 42:1
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
- Psalms 69:9
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
- Psalms 73:25
Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
- Psalms 84:1
For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
- Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Psalms 91:14
“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.
- Psalms 106:12
Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
- Psalms 106:13
They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
- Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
- Psalms 119:20
My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
- Psalms 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
- Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
- Psalms 119:139
My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
- Psalms 119:167
My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
- Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud, don’t spare. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Isaiah 58:2
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.
- Ezekiel 33:31
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.
- Ezekiel 33:32
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.
- Matthew 10:37
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.
- Matthew 24:12
Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
- Mark 12:30
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.
- Luke 8:13
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.
- Luke 14:26
“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.
- Luke 24:32
They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”
- Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
- Romans 6:6
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.
- Romans 8:13
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.
- Romans 12:10
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
- Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
- 1 Corinthians 9:27
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.
- 2 Corinthians 7:13
Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
- 2 Corinthians 7:14
For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
- 2 Corinthians 7:15
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
- 2 Corinthians 7:16
I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.
- Galatians 1:10
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 Christ.
- Galatians 4:15
What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
- Galatians 4:17
They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
- Galatians 4:18
But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
- Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
- Colossians 3:1
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
- Colossians 3:2
Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
- Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
- 1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;
- 2 Timothy 3:3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
- 2 Timothy 3:6
For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
- 2 Peter 2:3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
- 2 Peter 2:10
but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
- 2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
- Revelation 2:4
But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
- Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
- Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).