lust
What does the Bible say about lust? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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28But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
16For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world.
16So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.
5Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,
22So then, flee from the desires of your youth, yet truly, pursue justice, faith, hope, charity, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.
1I reached an agreement with my eyes, that I would not so much as think about a virgin.
18Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.
25Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.
11Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.
14Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away. 15Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death.
3For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication, 4that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, 5not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,