50 Bible Verses About Lust

“Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;”

““I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?”

“How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.”

“Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.”

“to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.”

“Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.”

““You have heard that it was said, TR adds “to the ancients”. ‘You shall not commit adultery;’Exodus 20:14”

“but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.”

“Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.””

“and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.”

“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.”

“You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

“Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.””

“You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

“but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.”

“that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.””

“Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”

“For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,” “You shall not covet,” Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21 and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Leviticus 19:18”

“Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.”

“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.”

“Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”

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

“Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.”

“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.”

“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.”

“Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”

“among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.”

“But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;”

“Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;”

“For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,”

“But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.”

“Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.”

“Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men’s sins. Keep yourself pure.”

“But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.”

“Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

“looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;”

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”

“But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.”

“Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”

“For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.”

“And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.”

“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

“having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;”

“knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,”

“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.”