Bible Verses about 'Lust'

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• For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  1 John 2:16desiresaddictionpride
• You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  Matthew 5:27-28marriagedesiresheart
• You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
  James 4:2sindesiresprayer
• Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust.
  2 Peter 1:4rewarddesiresworld
• But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
  Galatians 5:16sinSpiritdesires
• The world is passing away and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God continues to live forever.
  1 John 2:17eternal lifeobediencedesires
• For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God.
  1 Thessalonians 4:3-5holinesssexualitybody
• I have made a covenant with my eyes;
  How then could I look at a virgin?
  Job 31:1desiresself-controlcovenant
• But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
  Romans 13:14desiresaddictionJesus
• Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
  2 Timothy 2:22desirestemptationevil
• Therefore, treat the parts of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
  Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
• That they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
  Jude 1:18-19end timesdesireschurch
• It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, so that you will do them and not follow your own heart and your own eyes, which led you to prostitute yourselves.
  Numbers 15:39lawobediencedesires
• For they exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
  For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature, and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations with women and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing shameful acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
  And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper.
  Romans 1:25-28idolssexualitydesires
• For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, in order to keep you from doing whatever you want.
  Galatians 5:17obedienceSpirit
• What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Far from it! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
  Romans 7:7sinlawdesires
• But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge people into ruin and destruction.
  1 Timothy 6:9moneygreedmaterialism
• Now if your right eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
  Matthew 5:29sindesireshell
• For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and in a godly manner in the present age.
  Titus 2:11-12gracerighteousnesssalvation
• Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, indecent behavior, idolatry, witchcraft, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  Galatians 5:19-21bodysinsexuality
• And He was saying, “That which comes out of the person, that is what defiles the person. For from within, out of the hearts of people, come the evil thoughts, acts of sexual immorality, thefts, murders, acts of adultery, deeds of greed, wickedness, deceit, indecent behavior, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the person.”
  Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
• Urge slaves to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be pleasing, not argumentative, not stealing, but showing all good faith so that they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in every respect.
  Titus 2:9-10slaverywork
• You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  John 8:44devildesirestruth