32 Bible Verses about Passion

And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.

For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Then lust conceives and gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.

so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature;

And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.

And they were all awestruck at the mighty power of God. But while everyone was marveling at what he was doing, he said to his disciples.

If, however, a father feels that he is not treating his virgin daughter in a seemly manner, in leaving her unmarried beyond the flower of her age, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin. Let the marriage take place.

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor.

You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

and on the other hand their men likewise abandoned the natural use of women, and were ablaze with passion for one another; men with men practising shameless acts and receiving in their own person that recompense of their wrong-doing which necessarily followed.

His disciples recalled that it is written, The zeal of thine house will devour me.

After his sufferings he had also shown himself alive to them in many convincing manifestations, revealing himself to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.

Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

Flee from the passions of youth, but run after righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who out of a pure heart call upon the Lord.

Then a second angel followed, crying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great, Who has made all the nations drink the wine Of the frenzy of her fornication."

"Men, why are you doing all this? We also are men, with natures like your own! We are bringing you good tidings, that you are to turn from these empty things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is.

But each man is tempted by his own lusts that allure and entice him.

For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

how they used to say to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will be led only by their godless passions."

Then Peter took him aside and began to reprove him, saying. "God forbid, Master! That shall never befall you."

Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander, as well as all malice;

especially those who spend their lives following the flesh in the lust of defilement, and in despising all authority. Audacious and willful, they feel no awe in railing against dignities;