Passions

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

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

But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,

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

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.