Bible Verses about 'Lust'

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• For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
  1 John 2:16desiresaddictionpride
• I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
  Galatians 5:16sinSpiritdesires
• You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  Matthew 5:27-28marriagedesiresheart
• And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
  1 John 2:17eternal lifeobediencedesires
• You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
  James 4:2sindesiresprayer
• For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God.
  1 Thessalonians 4:3-5holinesssexualitybody
• By which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
  2 Peter 1:4rewarddesiresworld
• I have made a covenant with my eyes;
  Why then should I look upon a young woman?
  Job 31:1desiresself-controlcovenant
• But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
  Romans 13:14desiresaddictionJesus
• Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  2 Timothy 2:22desirestemptationevil
• Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting.
  Romans 1:25-28idolssexualitydesires
• Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
• For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
  Galatians 5:17obedienceSpirit
• But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
  1 Timothy 6:9moneygreedmaterialism
• And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined.
  Numbers 15:39lawobediencedesires
• For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age.
  Titus 2:11-12gracerighteousnesssalvation
• What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
  Romans 7:7sinlawdesires
• If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
  Matthew 5:29sindesireshell
• Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  Galatians 5:19-21bodysinsexuality
• And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”
  Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation
• Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back, not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
  Titus 2:9-10slaverywork
• You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
  John 8:44devildesirestruth