32 Bible Verses about Passion

Those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the physical nature with its propensities and cravings.

For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire with passion.

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

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,

training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.

not to gratify his passion, like the heathen who know nothing of God.

And they were all amazed at the power of God. While everybody was full of wonder at all that he was doing, he said to his disciples,

But if a man thinks he is not acting properly toward the girl to whom he is engaged, if his passions are too strong, and that is what ought to be done, let him do as he pleases; it is no sin; let them be married.

What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives,

You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.

and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done.

His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

He had shown himself alive to them after he had suffered, in many convincing ways, appearing to them through forty days, and telling them about the Kingdom of God.

Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,

not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.

Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

A second angel followed, saying, "She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen, who made all the heathen drink the wine of the passion of her immorality!"

and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

When anyone is tempted, it is by his own desire that he is enticed and allured.

For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.

So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.

We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

for they said to you, "In the last times there will be mockers who will go where their own godless passions lead."

And Peter took him aside and began to reprove him for it, saying, "God bless you, Master! that can never happen to you!"

You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite.

especially those who yield to their physical nature and indulge in passions that defile them, and despise authority. Rash, headstrong men! They stand in no awe of majesty, but deride beings