46 Bible Verses about Passion

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

For this reason, God abandoned them to their degrading passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

instructing us to say ?No? to ungodliness and worldly desires, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who do not know God;

They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He does not sin. Let them marry.

Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?

The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on 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,

You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

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

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God's Kingdom.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

Put to death, therefore, whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, 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.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord. This will never be done to you."

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, 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 donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

"Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies.