32 Bible Verses about Passion

And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.

When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

But, if they cannot control themselves, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be consumed with passion.

Then Passion conceives and gives birth to Sin, and Sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth Death.

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural;

leading us to renounce irreligious ways and worldly ambitions, and to live discreet, upright, and religious lives here in this present world,

Elijah was only a man like ourselves, but, when he prayed fervently that it might not rain, no rain fell upon the land for three years and a half.

And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;

And all present were struck with awe at the majesty of God. In the midst of the general astonishment at all that Jesus was doing, he said to his disciples:

If, however, a father thinks that he is not acting fairly by his unmarried daughter, when she is past her youth, and if under these circumstances her marriage ought to take place, let him act as he thinks right. He is doing nothing wrong-let the marriage take place.

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

For not to natural conception, nor to human instincts, nor to will of man did they owe the new Life, but to God.

Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,

You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.

While the men, disregarding that for which women were intended by nature, were consumed with passion for one another. Men indulged in vile practices with men, and incurred in their own persons the inevitable penalty for their perverseness.

His disciples remembered that Scripture said--'Zeal for thy House will consume me.'

With abundant proofs, he showed himself to them, still living, after his death; appearing to them from time to time during forty days, and speaking of all that related to the Kingdom of God.

Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,

Never flagging in zeal; fervent in spirit; serving the Master;

Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord.

Then a second angel followed, crying-- 'She has fallen! She has fallen--Babylon the Great, who has made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her licentiousness!'

"We are only men like yourselves, and we have come with the Good News that you should turn away from these follies to a living God, 'who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.'

A man is in every case tempted by his own passions--allured and enticed by them.

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our very nature exposed us to the Divine Wrath, like the rest of mankind.

how they used to say to you-- 'As time draws to an end, there will be scoffers, who will be led by their godless passions.'

But Peter took Jesus aside, and began to rebuke him. "Master," he said, "please God that shall never be your fate!"

Let all bitterness, passion, anger, brawling, and abusive language be banished from among you, as well as all malice.

especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty, maligning them,