7 Bible Verses about Evil Passions
Most Relevant Verses
Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.
Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord.
A man is in every case tempted by his own passions--allured and enticed by them.
That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural;
When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.
And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.
And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;