'Passions' in the Bible
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,
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.
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.
But when a man is tempted, it is his own passions that carry him away and serve as a bait.
that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.
But, above all, remember that, in the last days, men will come who make a mock at everything--men governed only by their own passions,
These men are murmurers, ever bemoaning their lot. Their lives are guided by their evil passions, and their mouths are full of big, boastful words, while they treat individual men with admiring reverence for the sake of the advantage they can gain.
how they declared to you, "In the last times there shall be scoffers, obeying only their own ungodly passions."