The Affections

41 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

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Blessedness of Making God the Object of

Psalm 91:14 “Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.

Romans 6:6 We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
Galatians 5:24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Romans 8:13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 13:14 Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 9:27 No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Matthew 10:37 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be My disciple.

Luke 24:32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Galatians 1:10 Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 4:17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
2 Timothy 3:6 They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,
2 Peter 2:3 In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
2 Peter 2:18 With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
Revelation 2:20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Colossians 3:1–2 Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. …

Psalm 19:8–10 The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. …
Psalm 119:20 My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
Psalm 119:97 Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
Psalm 119:103 How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
Psalm 119:167 I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.

1 Chronicles 29:3 Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:
Psalm 26:8 O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
Psalm 27:4 One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
Psalm 84:1–2 How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts! …

Psalm 16:3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
Romans 12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
2 Corinthians 7:13–15 On account of this, we are encouraged. In addition to our own encouragement, we were even more delighted by the joy of Titus. For his spirit has been refreshed by all of you. …
1 Thessalonians 2:8 We cared so deeply that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our own lives as well. That is how beloved you have become to us.

Deuteronomy 6:3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Psalm 69:9 because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
Psalm 119:139 My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.
Galatians 4:18 Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose — at any time, and not only when I am with you.

Psalm 106:12–13 Then they believed His promises and sang His praise. …
Matthew 24:12 Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
Galatians 4:15 What then has become of your blessing? For I can testify that, if it were possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
Revelation 2:4 But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.