Bible Dictionary
Affection
Affection means feeling or emotion. Scripture warns against sinful or disordered affections and urges believers to set their minds and desires on things above.
Definition
Affection is feeling or emotion. Scripture distinguishes between natural affections and spiritual or gracious affections, and it also speaks of affections that are vile or inordinate.
Biblical Usage
The Bible warns against vile and inordinate affections and exhorts Christians to set their affections on things above. Thus affection may be either disordered by sin or directed toward heavenly things.
Scripture References
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Feeling or emotion. Mention is made of “vile affections” (Rom. 1:26) and “inordinate affection” (Col. 3:5). Christians are exhorted to set their affections on things above (Col. 3:2). There is a distinction between natural and spiritual or gracious affections (Ezek. 33:32).