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—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
  1 John 2:16desiresaddictionpride
• But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
  Galatians 5:16sinSpiritdesires
• You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
  James 4:2sindesiresprayer
• You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  Matthew 5:27-28marriagedesiresheart
• I made a covenant with my eyes;
  how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
  Job 31:1desiresself-controlcovenant
• By which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
  2 Peter 1:4rewarddesiresworld
• For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God.
  1 Thessalonians 4:3-5holinesssexualitybody
• The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
  1 John 2:17eternal lifeobediencedesires
• Who exchanged the truth of God for a 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 their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting.
  Romans 1:25-28idolssexualitydesires
• But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  Romans 13:14desiresaddictionJesus
• Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
• Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  2 Timothy 2:22desirestemptationevil
• But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
  1 Timothy 6:9moneygreedmaterialism
• For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
  Galatians 5:17obedienceSpirit
• Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
  Galatians 5:19-21bodysinsexuality
• What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
  Romans 7:7sinlawdesires
• It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute.
  Numbers 15:39lawobediencedesires
• If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
  Matthew 5:29sindesireshell
• For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age.
  Titus 2:11-12gracerighteousnesssalvation
• He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”
  Mark 7:20-23sinpurificationtemptation