46 Bible Verses about Passion
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And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.
that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;
A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; But envy is the rottenness of the bones.
Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
And they were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marvelling at all the things which he did, he said unto his disciples,
But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter , if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.
His disciples remembered that it was written, Zeal for thy house shall eat me up.
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
To whom he also showed himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:
But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to 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 bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:
but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--
And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.
And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall never be unto thee.
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; 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 defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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Colossians 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;