22 Bible Verses about Emotions

in whatever matters our hearts condemn us--because God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.

These are those who cause divisions. They are men of the world, wholly unspiritual.

Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.

There is no narrowness in our love to you: the narrowness is in your own feelings.

Their end is destruction, their bellies are their God, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are devoted to earthly things.

The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.

such a one is a man of two minds, undecided in every step he takes.

For we have not a High Priest who is unable to feel for us in our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every respect just as we are tempted, and yet did not sin.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy.

Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.

And then the peace of God, which transcends all our powers of thought, will be a garrison to guard your hearts and minds in union with Christ Jesus.

Do not be drawn aside by all sorts of strange teaching; for it is well to have the heart made stedfast through God's grace, and not by special kinds of food, from which those who scrupulously attend to them have derived no benefit.

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits.

But let him ask in faith and have no doubts; for he who has doubts is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed into spray.

But now you must rid yourselves of every kind of sin--angry and passionate outbreaks, ill-will, evil speaking, foul-mouthed abuse--so that these may never soil your lips.