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.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

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.

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

If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.

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

among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

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

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

But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry

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

For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

Warning Against Worldliness

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

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

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

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

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”