44 Bible Verses about Emotions
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As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person's heart reflects the person.
Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.
that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.
Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.
Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
Our affection for you is not restricted, but you are restricted in your affections for us.
Like a city that is broken down and without a wall, so is a person who cannot control his temper.
A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.
Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.
May the evil deeds of the wicked come to an end! But make the innocent secure, O righteous God, you who examine inner thoughts and motives!
Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)
Rise up, Lord! Deliver me, my God! Yes, you will strike all my enemies on the jaw; you will break the teeth of the wicked.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.
Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)
The Beloved to the Maidens: I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem: "Do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!"
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.
Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in disclosing what is on his mind.
And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
"Shout loudly! Don't be quiet! Yell as loud as a trumpet! Confront my people with their rebellious deeds; confront Jacob's family with their sin!
Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
then his flesh is restored like a youth's; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.
But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.
A fool's annoyance is known at once, but the prudent overlooks an insult.
When David's oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said, "Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! You have come down here to watch the battle!"
or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her.
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart! All my tender compassions are aroused!
But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.
Topics on Emotions
Controlling Emotions
Proverbs 16:32Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.
Emotions, Kinds Of
Acts 2:37Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "What should we do, brothers?"
Emotions, Shown By God
Deuteronomy 7:7-8It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you -- for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.