46 Bible Verses about Passion
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And they of Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and desires.
For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire.
That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.
Therefore God delivered them to the suffering of ignominy: for also their females changed the natural use into that against generation:
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;
Elias was a man having similar feelings with us, and in prayer he prayed for it not to rain: and it rained not upon the earth for three years and six months.
And all were struck with amazement at the majesty of God. And all wondering at all which he did, Jesus said to his disciples,
And if any think to act unbecomingly towards his virgin, if she be past the vigor of youth, and so it ought to be, let him do what he will, he sins not; let them marry.
Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members
For the zeal of thy house devoured me, and the reproaches of those reproaching thee fell upon me.
They were not born of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.
Likewise also males, leaving the natural use of the female, were set on fire in their longing for one another; males with males working deformity, and the retribution which was needed receiving in themselves for their erring.
My soul longed after, and also failed for the enclosures of Jehovah: my heart and my flesh will rejoice for the living God.
To them also he presented himself living, after he suffered, by many infallible signs, through forty days seen to them, and speaking the things of the kingdom of God:
As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:
In study not slothful; boiling in the spirit; serving the Lord;
And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.
And another angel followed, saying, She fell, Babylon fell, the great city, for all nations has she given to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
And saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of similar passions with you, announcing good news to turn you back from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all in them:
For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love was strong as death; jealousy hard as hades: its flames, flames of fire, flames of Jehovah.
Who shall know the strength of thine anger? and according to thy fear, thy wrath.
Before the face of his wrath who shall stand? and who will rise up in the burning of his anger? his wrath was poured out as fire, and the rocks were torn down from him.
Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.
And he will put on justice as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and be will put on robes of vengeance a garment, and he will clothe himself with zeal as an upper garment
For they said to you that in the last time shall be deceivers, going according to the eager desires of their impieties.
And Peter having taken him, began to reproach him, saying, Be propitious to thyself, Lord: this shall not be to thee.
And I will send him forth in the hardnesses of their heart: they shall go in their counsels.
I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye shall find my beloved, what ye shall announce to him: I am pierced by love.
Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:
Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing; and who shall stand before jealousy?
A wild ass accustomed to the desert in gratifying her soul, panting after the wind in her heat; who shall turn her back? all seeking her will not be wearied; in her new moon they shall find her.
And chiefly them going after the flesh in eager desire of defilement, and despising dominion. Self-sufficient, rash men, they tremble not, defaming glories.
I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, why will ye awake, and why will ye rouse love till he shall desire?'
Wo! to him giving his neighbor drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle, and also to be drunken so as to look upon their nakedness.
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Colossians 3:5Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry: