Bible Verses About Lust

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Direct passage listing evil concupiscence among earthly sins

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Direct passage against lusting after evil things

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Core Gospel text on lustful intent and heart adultery.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Core warning that lust leads to sin and death.

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Core passage on crucifying the flesh with lusts.

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Direct apostolic command against lust of concupiscence.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Bible passage commonly used for resisting fleshly lusts.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Core passage on flesh and Spirit being contrary.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Direct apostolic summary of lust of flesh and eyes.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

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For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

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Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

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Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

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Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

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Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

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She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

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They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

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Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

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Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

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For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

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Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

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And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

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If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

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So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

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To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

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And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

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Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

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Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

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That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

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But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

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For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

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And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

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Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

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Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

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And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

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How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

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