46 Bible Verses about Passion

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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.

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

ThenBut while the entire crowd was amazed at everything Jesus was doing, he said to his disciples,

If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

The Lord approves of the godly, but he hates the wicked and those who love to do violence.

Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will devour me."

I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

To the same apostles also, after his suffering, he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.

But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

A second angel followed the first, declaring: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great city! She made all the nations drink of the wine of her immoral passion."

"Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

The Beloved to Her Lover: Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.

Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest

He wears his desire for justice like body armor, and his desire to deliver is like a helmet on his head. He puts on the garments of vengeance and wears zeal like a robe.

For they said to you, "In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires."

So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: "God forbid, Lord! This must not happen to you!"

I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.

The Beloved to the Maidens: O maidens of Jerusalem, I command you -- If you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am lovesick!

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.

especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

The Beloved to the Maidens: I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem: "Do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!"

"You who force your neighbor to drink wine are as good as dead -- you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their genitals.