Bible verses about "lust" | Goodspeed

1 Corinthians 6:18

18 Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Colossians 3:5

5 So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

3 It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality, 4 that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives, 5 not to gratify his passion, like the heathen who know nothing of God.

1 Peter 2:11

11 Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

Galatians 5:19-21

19 The things our physical nature does are clear enough—immorality, impurity, licentiousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

1 John 2:16

16 for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life—these do not come from the Father, but from the world;

Galatians 5:16

16 I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.

2 Timothy 2:22

22 Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

Matthew 5:28

28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman with desire has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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