100 Bible Verses about Passion

Galatians 5:24 ESV / 1,769 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 1,459 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Psalm 84:2 ESV / 1,359 helpful votes

My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 1,308 helpful votes

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Psalm 63:1 ESV / 1,271 helpful votes

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 1,219 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 1,090 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 965 helpful votes

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

John 3:16 ESV / 961 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 73:25-26 ESV / 961 helpful votes

Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Philippians 2:2 ESV / 955 helpful votes

Complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Romans 1:26 ESV / 949 helpful votes

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 880 helpful votes

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Acts 1:3 ESV / 850 helpful votes

He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV / 818 helpful votes

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

John 14:12 ESV / 812 helpful votes

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 796 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Romans 12:10-11 ESV / 752 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Romans 12:11 ESV / 742 helpful votes

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 722 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

James 1:17-20 ESV / 707 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

1 Corinthians 9:22 ESV / 705 helpful votes

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 704 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 701 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 ESV / 697 helpful votes

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 694 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 677 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Peter 4:2 ESV / 674 helpful votes

So as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 664 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 662 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 15:13 ESV / 651 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 636 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Thessalonians 4:5 ESV / 635 helpful votes

Not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

James 4:3 ESV / 633 helpful votes

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 618 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Mark 10:45 ESV / 615 helpful votes

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 612 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Thessalonians 4:4 ESV / 605 helpful votes

That each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 600 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 600 helpful votes

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 593 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 591 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 588 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 585 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 585 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Revelation 2:4 ESV / 565 helpful votes

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 562 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Philippians 3:8 ESV / 560 helpful votes

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 553 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 553 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 538 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 538 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 518 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 514 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 514 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 513 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 511 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 511 helpful votes

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 507 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 507 helpful votes

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 501 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 485 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Romans 7:5 ESV / 482 helpful votes

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 473 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Acts 1:8 ESV / 472 helpful votes

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

1 John 3:2 ESV / 467 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Proverbs 5:19 ESV / 457 helpful votes

A lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 454 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 449 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 448 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 447 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 John 4:9 ESV / 428 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

James 4:1 ESV / 427 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 420 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 419 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 393 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

James 2:2 ESV / 392 helpful votes

For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 389 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

John 3:4 ESV / 386 helpful votes

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”

James 4:5 ESV / 366 helpful votes

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

2 Peter 3:2 ESV / 352 helpful votes

That you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 343 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 John 4:2 ESV / 342 helpful votes

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 341 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 335 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

1 John 4:19 ESV / 325 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 321 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 315 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

John 14:2 ESV / 304 helpful votes

In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

James 1:2 ESV / 296 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

John 3:2 ESV / 296 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

James 1:27 ESV / 288 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 288 helpful votes

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 286 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 282 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 281 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Romans 12:3 ESV / 261 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Jeremiah 20:9 ESV / 261 helpful votes

If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 236 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

Acts 17:28 ESV / 206 helpful votes

For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

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