46 Bible Verses about Passion

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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

Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

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

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

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

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!