46 Bible Verses about Passion
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They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the appetites and lusts.
For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
but and if they cannot abstain, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn.
Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.
that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.
For this cause, God gave them up unto shameful lusts. For even their women did change the natural use unto the unnatural.
and teacheth us that we should deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and that we should live sober minded, righteously, and godly in this present world,
Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. While they wondered every one at all things which he did, he said unto his disciples,
If any man think that it is uncomely for his virgin if she pass the time of marriage, and if so need require, let him do what he listeth, he sinneth not: let them be coupled in marriage.
From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?
The LORD alloweth the righteous; but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness, doth his soul abhor.
For the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me; and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee is fallen upon me.
which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor yet of the will of man: but of God.
that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour,
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, even to consume it upon your voluptuousness.
And likewise also the men left the natural use of the woman, and burnt in their lusts, one on another, among themselves. And man with man wrought filthiness: and received in themselves the reward of their error, as it was according.
And his disciples remembered, how that it was written, "The zeal of thine house, hath even eaten me."
My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
to whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion, by many tokens; appearing unto them forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God;
Let not that business which ye have in hand be tedious to you. Be fervent in the spirit. Apply yourselves to the time.
Lusts of youth avoid, and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with them that call on the Lord with pure heart.
And there followed another angel, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen; that great city, for she made all nations drink of the wine of her fornication."
and saying, "Sirs, why do ye this? We are mortal men like unto 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 that in them is,
For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.
O set me as a seal upon thine heart, and as a seal upon thine arm: for love is mighty as the death, and jealousy as the hell. Her coals are of fire, and a very flame of the LORD:
But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? For even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.
Who may endure before his wrath? Or who is able to abide his grim displeasure? His anger taketh on like fire, and the hard rocks burst in sunder before him.
Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:
among which we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, and fulfilled the will of the flesh, and of the mind: and were naturally the children of wrath, even as well as others.
He put righteousness upon him for a breastplate, and set the helmet of health upon his head. He put on wrath instead of clothing, and took jealousy about him for a cloak:
how that they told you that there should be beguilers in the last time, which should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
But Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him saying, "Master, favor thyself, this shall not come unto thee."
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and let them follow their own imaginations.
I charge you therefore, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him how that I am sick for love.
Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.
Wrath is a cruel thing, and furiousness is a very tempest; yea, who is able to abide envy?
and thy wantonness is like a wild Ass, that useth the wilderness, and that snuffeth and bloweth at his will. Who can tame thee? All they that seek thee, shall not fail, but find thee in thy own uncleanness.
namely, them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise the rulers. Presumptuous are they, and stubborn, and fear not to speak evil of them that are in authority;
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that ye wake not up my love, nor touch her, till she be content herself. What is she, this that cometh up from the wilderness, and leaneth upon her love?
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, to get him wrathful displeasure for his drunkenness: that he may see his privities.
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Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols: