46 Bible Verses about Passion

For those that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts.

For while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

But if they do not have the gift of continence, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.

For this cause God gave them up unto shameful affections, for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;

teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live temperately, righteously, and godly in this present world;

A sound heart is life to the flesh, but envy is rottenness of the bones.

Elijah was a man subject to passions like unto ours, and he asked in prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

not with affection of lust, as the Gentiles who do not know God,

And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they all wondered at all the things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,

But if anyone thinks it uncomely regarding his daughter, if she passes the bloom of life, and need so requires, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry.

Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

The LORD tries the righteous, but the wicked and he that loves violence his soul hates.

For the zeal of thy house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

who are not born of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honesty,

Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your pleasures.

and likewise also the males, leaving the natural use of the females, burned in their lust one toward another, males with males committing nefarious works and receiving in themselves the recompense that proceeded from their error.

Then his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house has consumed me.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.

unto whom he also showed himself alive, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, appearing unto them for forty days and speaking to them of the kingdom of God;

as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,

not slothful in earnest care, but fervent in the Spirit, serving the Lord,

Flee also youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with those that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

And another angel followed, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has given all the Gentiles 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 preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things that are therein,

But each one is tempted, when they are drawn away of their own lust and enticed.

For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart as a sign upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is hard as Sheol; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame.

Who knows the power of thine anger? that thy wrath is not less than our fear.

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as all the others.

For he put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of saving health upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak,

how that they told you, That in the last time there would be mockers, who would walk after their own ungodly desires.

Then Peter, taking him aside, began to rebuke him, saying, Lord, be it far from thee; in no wise shall this happen unto thee.

So I gave them up unto the hardness of their heart, and they walked in their own counsels.

I charge you, O virgins of Jerusalem, if ye should find my beloved that ye cause him to know how sick I am with love.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,

Wrath is cruel, and anger is impetuous, but who is able to stand before envy?

a wild ass used to the wilderness that breaths according to the desire of her soul; from her lust, who shall stop her? All those that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers;

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye not awake nor stir up love until he pleases.

Woe unto him that gives his neighbours drink, that puts thy bottle to them, and makes them drunken also, that thou may look on their nakedness!