46 Bible Verses about Passion

But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;

teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Elias was a man of like passions to us, and he prayed with prayer that it should not rain; and it did not rain upon the earth three years and six months;

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

And all were astonished at the glorious greatness of God. And as all wondered at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,

But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.

For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.

that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.

and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.

And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house devours me.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

to whom also he presented himself living, after he had suffered, with many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking of the things which concern the kingdom of God;

as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;

as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.

But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

And another, a second, angel followed, saying, Great Babylon has fallen, has fallen, which of the wine of the fury of her fornication has made all nations drink.

and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;

But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;

For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol: The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, Flames of Jah.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

Who shall stand before his indignation? and who shall abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

that they said to you, that at the end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.

And Peter taking him to him began to rebuke him, saying, God be favourable to thee, Lord; this shall in no wise be unto thee.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.

I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, ... What will ye tell him? That I am sick of love.

Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall turn her away? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, ... Why should ye stir up, why awake my love, till he please?

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that pourest out thy flask, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!