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100 Bible Verses about Lust

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 19,691 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 18,538 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 16,429 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 14,952 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 14,677 helpful votes

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

Job 31:1 ESV / 12,805 helpful votes

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 11,353 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Proverbs 6:25 ESV / 10,973 helpful votes

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 10,854 helpful votes

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

James 1:14-15 ESV / 10,760 helpful votes

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 10,306 helpful votes

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 holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 9,915 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 13:14 ESV / 8,641 helpful votes

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 8,631 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 8,521 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Romans 8:6 ESV / 7,845 helpful votes

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Exodus 20:17 ESV / 7,480 helpful votes

“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

Romans 7:7 ESV / 7,355 helpful votes

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

James 1:14 ESV / 7,199 helpful votes

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 6,852 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 6,581 helpful votes

“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 lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Galatians 5:17 ESV / 6,493 helpful votes

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

James 1:15 ESV / 6,294 helpful votes

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Genesis 3:6 ESV / 5,904 helpful votes

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 5,584 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 5,546 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 5,528 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:24 ESV / 5,457 helpful votes

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

James 4:2 ESV / 5,371 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Ephesians 4:22 ESV / 5,203 helpful votes

To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,

1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 5,181 helpful votes

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.

Romans 1:24 ESV / 5,088 helpful votes

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 5,056 helpful votes

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 4,953 helpful votes

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

John 8:44 ESV / 4,928 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Matthew 5:29 ESV / 4,780 helpful votes

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 4,729 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 4,710 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Romans 6:12 ESV / 4,692 helpful votes

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

Numbers 15:39 ESV / 4,464 helpful votes

And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4,441 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Galatians 5:16-17 ESV / 4,427 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Titus 2:12 ESV / 4,416 helpful votes

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

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 4,397 helpful votes

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 4,356 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 4,325 helpful votes

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.

Romans 1:26 ESV / 4,321 helpful votes

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;

Matthew 5:27-30 ESV / 4,163 helpful votes

“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 lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

Romans 1:27 ESV / 4,129 helpful votes

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.

1 John 2:17 ESV / 4,061 helpful votes

And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 3,886 helpful votes

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3,847 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1 Corinthians 10:6 ESV / 3,844 helpful votes

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 3,840 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

James 4:7 ESV / 3,834 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 3,679 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Romans 8:13 ESV / 3,563 helpful votes

For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Deuteronomy 5:21 ESV / 3,562 helpful votes

“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.’

Matthew 5:27 ESV / 3,466 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

Romans 8:5 ESV / 3,163 helpful votes

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

1 Timothy 6:6-10 ESV / 3,117 helpful votes

But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

1 Thessalonians 4:5 ESV / 3,113 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:15-16 ESV / 3,094 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 2,986 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Matthew 4:1 ESV / 2,969 helpful votes

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

1 John 2:16-17 ESV / 2,946 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 2,932 helpful votes

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

James 4:5 ESV / 2,886 helpful votes

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

Psalm 78:18 ESV / 2,776 helpful votes

They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.

Romans 1:28 ESV / 2,751 helpful votes

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Mark 4:19 ESV / 2,751 helpful votes

But the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Psalm 119:9-10 ESV / 2,650 helpful votes

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Romans 6:19 ESV / 2,614 helpful votes

I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

1 Peter 4:2 ESV / 2,531 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2,527 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 2,523 helpful votes

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

James 4:1 ESV / 2,516 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:32 ESV / 2,481 helpful votes

He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.

2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 2,473 helpful votes

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

Galatians 6:8 ESV / 2,472 helpful votes

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Jeremiah 13:27 ESV / 2,449 helpful votes

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 2,385 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...

Genesis 39:11-12 ESV / 2,359 helpful votes

But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house, she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2,357 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2,348 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

James 4:1-3 ESV / 2,301 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Titus 2:11 ESV / 2,294 helpful votes

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,

Matthew 24:12 ESV / 2,274 helpful votes

And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2,237 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 2,154 helpful votes

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 2,141 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

1 Timothy 5:6 ESV / 2,135 helpful votes

But she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

James 4:3 ESV / 2,131 helpful votes

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

James 1:1-27 ESV / 2,119 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

2 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 2,065 helpful votes

Heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

1 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 1,925 helpful votes

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.

James 5:5 ESV / 1,915 helpful votes

You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 1,896 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 1,888 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...

Galatians 5:2 ESV / 1,866 helpful votes

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

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