32 Bible Verses about Passion

now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

but if they have not the gift, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be in pain.

and the genuine offspring of sin is death.

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

amen. for this cause God gave them up to infamous passions: for even the sex perverted the instinct of nature:

teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;

Elias was only a man, as we are; however, having ardently prayed, that it might not rain, it did not rain in that country for three years and a half:

person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:

and all the people were astonished at such an instance of divine power: and as they were admiring whatever Jesus did, he said to his disciples,

if any man thinks it would be a reflexion upon his manhood to be a stale batchelor, and so ought to marry; let him follow his bent, he is at liberty, let such marry.

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

a birth which they had not from circumcision, nor from the constitution of the body, nor the institution of man, but from God.

that every one of you should take care to preserve the dignity of his

you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.

and the men unnaturally leaving the sex, were inflamed with mutual passions, which they shamefully indulged, and received in their own persons, the retribution that was justly due to such enormities.

which put his disciples in mind of that passage, "my zeal for thine house does prey upon me."

to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, of which they had many proofs, during the forty days he appear'd to them, and inform'd them about the reign of the Messias:

as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.

in business be not slothful, but of an active mind, making the best use of every incident.

Avoid the passions of youth. pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians.

And a second angel followed, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, because she has made all nations drink of the deadly wine of her fornication."

cry'd out, "sirs, what are you going to do? we are but men as well as you, and we exhort you to renounce these vanities, and turn to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth and the sea, and all that they contain:

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

of which number we all have formerly been, leading our dissolute lives in gratifying the desires of our sensual imaginations: and were indeed obnoxious to the divine displeasure, as other. Gentiles were:

for they assur'd you, there would be impostors in the last days, who would follow their own impious passions.

then Peter taking him aside, began to expostulate with him, saying, God forbid, Sir, this should ever happen to you.

banish all resentment and indignation, anger, vehemence, detraction, and every thing like malice.

especially those, who prostitute themselves to sensual infamous passions: who despise magistrates, who being audacious, and insolent, intrepidly calumniate the higher powers;