Nave’s Topical Bible
Affections
45 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Should be supremely set upon God
- Should be set upon the commandments of God
- Should be set upon the house and worship of God
- Should be set upon the people of God
Psalms 16:3; Romans 12:10; 2 Corinthians 7:13-16; 1 Thessalonians 2:8
- Should be set upon heavenly things
- Should be zealously engaged for God
- Christ claims the first place in
- Enkindled by communion with Christ
- Blessedness of making God the object of
- Should not grow cold
Psalms 106:12-13; Matthew 24:12; Galatians 4:15; Revelation 2:4
- Of saints, supremely set on God
- Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God
- Carnal, should be mortified
Romans 8:13; Romans 13:14; 1 Corinthians 9:27; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:5
- Carnal affections crucified in saints
- False teachers seek to captivate
Galatians 1:10; Galatians 4:17; 2 Timothy 3:6; 2 Peter 2:3,18; Revelation 2:14,20
- Of the wicked, are unnatural and perverted
Bible verses about “Affections”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Deuteronomy 6:5And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
- Mark 12:30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
- Psalms 19:8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Psalms 19:9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
- Psalms 19:10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
- Psalms 119:20My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
- Psalms 119:97O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
- Psalms 119:103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
- Psalms 119:167My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
- 1 Chronicles 29:3Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
- Psalms 26:8Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
- Psalms 27:4One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.
- Psalms 84:1How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
- Psalms 84:2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
- Psalms 16:3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
- Romans 12:10Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
- 2 Corinthians 7:13Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
- 2 Corinthians 7:14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
- 2 Corinthians 7:15And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
- 2 Corinthians 7:16I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:8So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
- Colossians 3:1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Colossians 3:2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
- Psalms 69:9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
- Psalms 119:139My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
- Galatians 4:18But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
- Matthew 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
- Luke 14:26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
- Luke 24:32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
- Psalms 91:14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
- Psalms 106:12Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
- Psalms 106:13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
- Matthew 24:12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
- Galatians 4:15Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
- Revelation 2:4Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
- Psalms 42:1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
- Psalms 73:25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
- Psalms 119:10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
- Isaiah 58:1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
- Isaiah 58:2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.