Emotions

Thanks for the discussion last night. Here are the bible quotations that I was reading from (which seem to indicate that the bible doesn't have a water-tight model of the distinctions between "heart", "spirit", "mind" and "soul" that many modern Christians have):

Lk 19:41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it.

Php 1:3 I thank my God every time I remember you.
1:4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy... 1:7 It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart; for whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God's grace with me. 1:8 God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Rom 8:22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 8:23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.


"heart": 793 references - inc.

Mt 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Mt 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Mt 9:2 ... Jesus ... said to the paralytic, "Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven."

Mt 13:15 For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
-- heart || understanding

Mt 22:37 Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."

Lk 24:32 They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"
-- heart (emotion) || spiritual conviction?

Rom 10:10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
-- heart || faith?

Gal 4:6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." 4:7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.
-- heart || spirit?

Heb 10:15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 10:16 "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."
-- heart || mind? obedience to God's will

1Jn 3:21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God ...
-- heart || conscience?

1Jn 5:10 Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart.
-- heart || faith?


"spirit": 533 references - inc.:

Ps 32:2 Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not count against him and in whose spirit is no deceit.

Ps 34:18 The LORD is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
-- spirit || emotions?

Ps 51:10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
-- spirit || heart?

Ps 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
-- will || spirit?

Ps 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
-- spirit || heart?

Pro 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. 16:19 Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.

Eccl 7:9 Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
-- spirit || emotions?

Lam 1:16 "This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit.

Mt 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Lk 1:46 And Mary said: "My soul glorifies the Lord 1:47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour...
-- soul || spirit?

Jn 4:24 "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

Jn 11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 11:34 "Where have you laid him?" he asked.
"Come and see, Lord," they replied. 11:35 Jesus wept.
-- emotion || spirit?

Rom 8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
-- spirit || faith, conviction

1Cor 2:10b The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 2:11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 2:12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 2:13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. 2:14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 2:15 The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
-- spirit || thinking?

1 Cor 14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. 14:15 So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.
-- spirit is NOT mind?

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
-- soul is NOT spirit?

Jas 2:26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
-- "spirit" = spark of life