32 Bible Verses about Passion

Against such things as these there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their lower nature with its passions and appetites.

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,

training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

Elijah was a man with a nature similar to ours, and he earnestly prayed that there might be no rain: and no rain fell on the land for three years and six months.

that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;

And all were awe-struck at the mighty power of God. And while every one was expressing wonder at all that He was doing, He said to his disciples,

If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry.

What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.

in just the same way--neglecting that for which nature intends women--burned with passion towards one another, men practising shameful vice with men, and receiving in their own selves the reward which necessarily followed their misconduct.

This recalled to His disciples the words of Scripture, "My zeal for Thy House will consume me."

He had also, after He suffered, shown Himself alive to them with many sure proofs, appearing to them at intervals during forty days, and speaking of the Kingdom of God.

And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,

Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,

Keep a strong curb, however, on your youthful cravings; and strive for integrity, good faith, love, peace, in company with all who pray to the Lord with pure hearts.

And another, a second angel, followed, exclaiming, "Great Babylon has fallen, has fallen--she who made all the nations drink the wine of the anger provoked by her fornication."

We also are but men, with natures kindred to your own; and we bring you the Good News that you are to turn from these unreal things, to worship the ever-living God, the Creator of earth and sky and sea and of everything that is in them.

But when a man is tempted, it is his own passions that carry him away and serve as a bait.

For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

how they declared to you, "In the last times there shall be scoffers, obeying only their own ungodly passions."

Then Peter took Him aside and began taking Him to task. "Master," he said, "God forbid; this will not be your lot."

Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger and loud insulting language, be unknown among you--and also every kind of malice.

and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;