Bible verses about "lust" | ERV

Job 31:1

1 I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?

Proverbs 6:25

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

1 Corinthians 6:18

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

Colossians 3:5

5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry;

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honour, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;

1 Peter 2:11

11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Galatians 5:19-21

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these], fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, heresies, 21 envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they which practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:16

16 But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

2 Timothy 2:22

22 But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

1 John 2:16

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

Matthew 5:28

28 but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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