From Nave’s Topical Bible
Affections
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 55Passages listed
- 17Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Should be supremely set upon GodDeuteronomy 6:5Mark 12:30
- Should be set upon the commandments of GodPsalms 19:8–10Psalms 119:20Psalms 119:97Psalms 119:103Psalms 119:167
- Should be set upon the house and worship of God1 Chronicles 29:3Psalms 26:8Psalms 27:4Psalms 84:1Psalms 84:2
- Should be set upon the people of GodPsalms 16:3Romans 12:102 Corinthians 7:13–161 Thessalonians 2:8
- Should be set upon heavenly thingsColossians 3:1Colossians 3:2
- Should be zealously engaged for GodPsalms 69:9Psalms 119:139Galatians 4:18
- Christ claims the first place inMatthew 10:37Luke 14:26
- Enkindled by communion with ChristLuke 24:32
- Blessedness of making God the object ofPsalms 91:14
- Should not grow coldPsalms 106:12Psalms 106:13Matthew 24:12Galatians 4:15Revelation 2:4
- Of saints, supremely set on GodPsalms 42:1Psalms 73:25Psalms 119:10
- Of the wicked, not sincerely set on GodIsaiah 58:1Isaiah 58:2Ezekiel 33:31Ezekiel 33:32Luke 8:13
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- Carnal, should be mortifiedRomans 8:13Romans 13:141 Corinthians 9:27Colossians 3:51 Thessalonians 4:5
- Carnal affections crucified in saintsRomans 6:6Galatians 5:24
- False teachers seek to captivateGalatians 1:10Galatians 4:172 Timothy 3:62 Peter 2:32 Peter 2:18Revelation 2:14Revelation 2:20
- Of the wicked, are unnatural and pervertedRomans 1:312 Timothy 3:32 Peter 2:10
The passages, in Bible order (55)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- 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.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:52 voices
Critically, love for God is at the core of a relationship with Him. The goal was never mere compliance. The goal was covenant faithfulness expressed through love for God and love for others.
Rabbi Jason Sobel· Recovering God's Design pt. 1 (Ask the Rabbi series)
And therefore it is written, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God. Now he who loves also believes, and in believing each man begins to love. Abraham believed, and so began to love, and he believed not in part, but entirely. For otherwise he would not have perfect charity, for it is written, Charity believeth all things. If it believe not all things, charity does not seem to be perfect. Perfect charity then has all faith.
Ambrose of Milan· Letter 76, Section 5Patristic
- 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:
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 29:31 voice
Of mine own proper good - i. e., from his own private estate. He makes the offering publicly in order to provoke others by his example 1Ch 29:5.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Psalms 16:3
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
Commentary on Psalms 16:31 voice
To the saints who are in his land, he made all his wishes wonderful in them. In place of which it is written in the Hebrew: "To the saints who are in the land, and to my exalted ones, is all my will in them." These goods of which you have no need, O Father, my saints do need—the saints in whom I have made all my wishes to be wonderful.
Jerome· Homily 61, on Psalm 15Patristic
- Psalms 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.
Commentary on Psalms 19:8–102 voices
"The statutes of the Lord are right." His precepts and decrees are founded in righteousness, and are such as are right or fitted to the right reason of man. As a physician gives the right medicine, and a counsellor the right advice, so does the Book of God. "Rejoicing the heart." Mark the progress; he who was converted was next made wise and is now made happy; that truth which makes the heart right then gives joy to the right heart. Free-grace brings heart-joy.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 1, 1869
The statutes of the Lord are right,.... The word of God may be called "statutes", or "visitations" (d) because that God will visit, in a way of resentment, such persons as despise its authority, do not act according to it, or add unto it, or detract from it; or the word may be rendered "commissions" (e), things committed to trust, as the Scriptures were to the Jews, Rom 3:1; and as the Gospel is committed to the trust of the ministers of it, who faithfully dispense it, 2Co 5:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 26:8
O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
Commentary on Psalms 26:81 voice
What he calls "the glory of your house" is not the beauty of walls or the most expensive table settings, but the most blessed quality of those actions in which the entire church rejoices: namely, the joyful singing of psalms, the holiness of prayers, the …
Cassiodorus· EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 26:8Patristic
- Psalms 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.
Commentary on Psalms 27:42 voices
The primary quest in my life is to learn how to host the Presence of God. There is no greater privilege than being a host to God Himself. Neither is there a greater responsibility.
Bill Johnson· Hosting the Presence (Core Values article, Bill Johnson Ministries)
He knew something of the beauty of the Lord, the infinite and transcendent amiableness of the divine being and perfections; his holiness is his beauty ( Ps. cx. 3 ), his goodness is his beauty, Zech. ix. The harmony of all his attributes is the beauty of his nature.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Psalms 42:1
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
Commentary on Psalms 42:12 voices
THERE is something to be lamented in this state of mind, for if the Psalmist had maintained unbroken communion with his God, he would not have been so much panting after Him as enjoying Him. It is deeply to be deplored that we, who sometimes bask in the sunshine of God's Countenance, cannot live so as always to enjoy it. Why do we wander? Why do we grieve His Holy Spirit? Why do we turn aside from God, our exceeding joy?
Charles Spurgeon· The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 822: “The Panting Deer” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition), 1868
As the hart panteth after the water brooks,.... Either through a natural thirst that creature is said to have; or through the heat of the summer season; and especially when hunted by dogs, it betakes itself to rivers of water, partly to make its escape, and partly to extinguish its thirst, and refresh itself.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 69:9
because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
- Psalms 73:25
Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
Commentary on Psalms 73:252 voices
It is good for us to cleave to the Lord, and to put our hope in the Lord God, so that when we have exchanged our present poverty for the kingdom of heaven, we may be able to exclaim, "Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside you." Surely if we can find such blessedness in heaven we may well grieve to have sought after poor and passing pleasures here on earth.
Jerome· LETTER 43.3Patristic
What will it avail us that he is the felicity of souls if he be not the felicity of our souls, and if we do not by a lively faith make him ours, by joining ourselves to him in an everlasting covenant? (2.) Then our desire must be towards him and our delight in him (the word signifies both); we must delight in what we have of God and desire what we yet further hope for.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Psalms 84:1
How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!
Commentary on Psalms 84:12 voices
To the choirmaster, for the winepresses, a psalm of the sons of Korah. There are three psalms which are inscribed "for the winepresses": the eighth, the eightieth, and the eighty-third. The eighth is inscribed to David, the eightieth is inscribed to Asaph, the eighty-third is inscribed as of the sons of Korah. I give you a certain rule, so that you may know what you ought to observe in the Scriptures. Whatever psalm is inscribed as of the sons of Korah has nothing sad in it, but always signifies joyful things.
Jerome· Homily 16, on Psalm 83Patristic
How lovely is the sanctuary in the eyes of all that are truly sanctified! Gracious souls see a wonderful, an inexpressible, beauty in holiness, and in holy work. A tabernacle was a mean habitation, but the disadvantage of external circumstances makes holy ordinances not at all the less amiable; for the beauty of holiness is spiritual, and their glory is within.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Commentary on Psalms 84:22 voices
My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God. Listen, heretic, to what he says. How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts: he is speaking of the kingdom of heaven. "There are many dwelling-places with my Father," the Lord says in the Gospel. My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord: these are the courts in which the saints will dwell for eternity, which the prophet desires. My heart and my flesh. You see, then, that both the soul and the flesh alike desire the kingdom of heaven.
Jerome· Homily 63, on Psalm 83 (Alternate Series)Patristic
It was an intense desire; it was like the desire of the ambitious, or covetous, or voluptuous. He longed, he fainted, he cried out, importunate to be restored to his place in God's courts, and almost impatient of delay. Yet it was not so much the courts of the Lord that he coveted, but he cried out, in prayer, for the living God himself.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Psalms 91:14
“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
Commentary on Psalms 91:142 voices
Truly the devil, like a devil, interprets concerning the Savior what is not concerning the Savior. For if the whole psalm is about the Savior, as you interpret it, O devil, then it is about him too what is said: I will protect him, because he has known my name. That is, I the Father will protect my Son. Let me interpret it, devil, as you understand it. Let us see whether the sense holds. I will protect him, because he has known my name: that is, I the Father my Son.
Jerome· Homily 20, on Psalm 90Patristic
Many think that to Christ, as Mediator, these promises do primarily belong ( Isa. xlix. 2 ), not because to him the devil applied one of these promises ( Matt. iv. 6 ), but because to him they are very applicable, and, coming through him, they are more sweet and sure to all believers.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Psalms 106:13
Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Commentary on Psalms 106:131 voice
This people soon forgot them (God took notice of this, Exod. xxxii. 8 , They have turned aside quickly): They made haste, they forgot his works (so it is in the margin), which some make to be two separate instances of their sin.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Psalms 119:10
With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
Commentary on Psalms 119:101 voice
With my whole heart have I sought thee,.... Not himself, his own honour and applause, as formal worshippers and self-righteous persons do; but the Lord and his glory, his face, his presence, and communion with him, his grace, and fresh supplies of it, to help in time of need; his doctrine, as the Targum; and to know more of it, and of him, and of his mind and will; and this he did in the most sincere manner, with all his heart and soul.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 119:20
My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
Commentary on Psalms 119:201 voice
ONE of the best tests of a man's character will be found in his deepest and heartiest longings. You cannot always judge a man by what he is doing at any one time, for he may be under constraints which compel him to act contrary to his true self, or he may be under an impulse from which he will soon be free. He may, for a while, back off from that which is evil and yet he may be radically bad.
Charles Spurgeon· The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1586: “Holy Longings” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition), 1881
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