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Affection John 13:34, 35

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. / By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

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Affection Romans 12:10

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

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Affection Romans 13:8–10

Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. / The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” / Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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Affection Ephesians 4:31, 32

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice. / Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

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Affection 1 Corinthians 7:2

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

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Affection 1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

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Affection Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

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Affections of Saints, Supremely Set on God Psalm 42:1

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

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Affections of Saints, Supremely Set on God Psalm 73:25

Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.

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Affections of Saints, Supremely Set on God Psalm 119:10

With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

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Affections of the Wicked, are Unnatural and Perverted Romans 1:31

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

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Affections of the Wicked, are Unnatural and Perverted 2 Timothy 3:3

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

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Affections of the Wicked, are Unnatural and Perverted 2 Peter 2:10

Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

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Affections of the Wicked, not Sincerely Set on God Isaiah 58:1, 2

“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins. / For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

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Affections of the Wicked, not Sincerely Set on God Ezekiel 33:31, 32

So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain. / Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.

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Affections of the Wicked, not Sincerely Set on God Luke 8:13

The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.

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Affections: 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.

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Affections: Carnal Affections Crucified in Saints 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.

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Affections: Carnal Affections Crucified in Saints Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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Affections: Carnal, should be Mortified 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.

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Affections: Carnal, should be Mortified Romans 13:14

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

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Affections: Carnal, should be Mortified 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.

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Affections: Carnal, should be Mortified Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

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Affections: Carnal, should be Mortified 1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

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Affections: Christ Claims the First Place In 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;

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Affections: Christ Claims the First Place In 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.

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Affections: Enkindled by Communion with Christ 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?”

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Affections: False Teachers Seek to Captivate 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.

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Affections: False Teachers Seek to Captivate 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.

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Affections: False Teachers Seek to Captivate 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,

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Affections: False Teachers Seek to Captivate 2 Peter 2:3, 18

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. / 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.

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Affections: False Teachers Seek to Captivate Revelation 2:14, 20

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. / 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.

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Affections: should be Set Upon Heavenly Things 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. / Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

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Affections: should be Set Upon the Commandments 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. / The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous. / They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

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Affections: should be Set Upon the Commandments of God Psalm 119:20, 97, 103, 167

My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times. / Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation. / How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!

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Affections: should be Set Upon the House and Worship of God 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:

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Affections: should be Set Upon the House and Worship of God Psalm 26:8

O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

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Affections: should be Set Upon the House and Worship of God 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.

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Affections: should be Set Upon the House and Worship of God Psalm 84:1, 2

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts! / My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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Affections: should be Set Upon the People of God Psalm 16:3

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

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Affections: should be Set Upon the People of God Romans 12:10

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

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Affections: should be Set Upon the People of God 2 Corinthians 7:13–16

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. / Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well. / And his affection for you is even greater when he remembers that you were all obedient as you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

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Affections: should be Set Upon the People of God 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.

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Affections: should be Supremely Set Upon God Deuteronomy 6:5

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

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Affections: should be Supremely Set Upon God 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.’

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Affections: should be Zealously Engaged for God Psalm 69:9

because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

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Affections: should be Zealously Engaged for God Psalm 119:139

My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.

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Affections: should be Zealously Engaged for God 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.

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Affections: should not Grow Cold Psalm 106:12, 13

Then they believed His promises and sang His praise. / Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

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Affections: should not Grow Cold Matthew 24:12

Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

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Affections: should not 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.

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Affections: should not Grow Cold Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.

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Belly used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections Job 15:2, 35

“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind? / They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

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Belly used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections Job 20:20

Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.

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Belly used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections Psalm 44:25

For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

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Belly used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections Proverbs 18:20

From the fruit of his mouth a man’s belly is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.

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Belly used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections Proverbs 20:27, 30

The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being. / Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.

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Belly used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections Habakkuk 3:16

I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

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Belly used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections John 7:38

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

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Belly used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections Titus 1:12

As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

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Enemies: Be Affectionately Concerned For Psalm 35:13

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Deuteronomy 5:29

If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Deuteronomy 6:5, 6

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. / These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections 1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections 1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections 2 Chronicles 12:14

And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Psalm 22:26

The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Psalm 34:18

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Psalm 51:10, 17

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. / The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Psalm 57:7

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make music.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Psalm 112:7

He does not fear bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Proverbs 15:13–15

A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit. / A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly. / All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Jeremiah 17:1, 9, 10

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. / The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? / I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Matthew 9:4

But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Matthew 12:33

Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Matthew 15:18–20

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. / For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. / These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Matthew 23:26

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Mark 7:21

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Acts 8:22

Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Romans 2:5, 14–16

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. / Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. / on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.

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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections Hebrews 3:8, 15

do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”

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Industry: Leads to Affection of Relatives Proverbs 31:28

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well:

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Jeroboam: Recalled from Egypt by the Ten Tribes on Account of Disaffection Toward Rehoboam 1 Kings 12:1–20

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. / When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since. / So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

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Jeroboam: Recalled from Egypt by the Ten Tribes on Account of Disaffection Toward Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 10:12–19

After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.” / And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders / and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”

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Kiss of Affection Genesis 27:26, 27

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.” / So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

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Kiss of Affection Genesis 31:55

Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.

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Kiss of Affection Genesis 33:4

Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.

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Kiss of Affection Genesis 48:10

Now Israel’s eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

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Kiss of Affection Genesis 50:1

Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.

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Kiss of Affection Exodus 18:7

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

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Kiss of Affection Ruth 1:14

Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

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Kiss of Affection 2 Samuel 14:33

So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.

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Kiss of Affection 2 Samuel 19:39

So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed over. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned home.

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Kiss of Affection Luke 15:20

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

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Kiss of Affection Acts 20:37

They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.

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