Bible Verses About Passion

“My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.”

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

“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 body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.”

“After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.”

“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize. Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable. Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air. No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.”

“Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.”

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation. My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.”

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

“And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”

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

“And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.”

“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

“By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.”

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.”

“Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

“But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.”

“More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ”

“And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”

“As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.”

“Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.”

“One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.”

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

“Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.”

“A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.”

“Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.”

“This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.”

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

“Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.”

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

“Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.”

“Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.”

“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”

“Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?”

“We love because He first loved us.”

“In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?”

“For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.”

“If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.”

“Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.”

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.”

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.”

“But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.”

“His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

“Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.”

“Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.”

“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.”

“Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.”

“So we aspire to please Him, whether we are at home in this body or away from it.”

“Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.”