46 Bible Verses about Passion
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Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.
But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age,
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.
And they were all astonished at the greatness of God.
While everyone was amazed at all the things He was doing, He told His disciples,
But if any man thinks he is acting improperly toward his virgin, if she is past marriageable age, and so it must be, he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?
because zeal for Your house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult You
have fallen on me.
who were born,
not of blood,
or of the will of the flesh,
or of the will of man,
but of God.
so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
The males in the same way also left natural relations with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.
I long and yearn
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh cry out for the living God.
After He had suffered, He also presented Himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.
Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
A second angel followed, saying: “It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen, who made all nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath.”
“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death;
ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames—
the fiercest of all.
Who understands the power of Your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.
Who can withstand His indignation?
Who can endure His burning anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
even rocks are shattered before Him.
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
He put on righteousness like a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and He wrapped Himself in zeal as in a cloak.
they told you, “In the end time there will be scoffers walking according to their own ungodly desires.”
Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, “Oh no, Lord! This will never happen to You!”
Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you:
if you find my love,
tell him that I am lovesick.
All bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness.
She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire.
Who can control her passion?
All who look for her will not become tired;
they will find her in her mating season.
especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority.
Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones;
Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you:
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time.
Woe to him who gives his neighbors drink,
pouring out your wrath
and even making them drunk,
in order to look at their nakedness!
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Colossians 3:5Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: