Bible verses about "lust" | Riverside

1 Corinthians 6:18

18 Shun unchastity. Every other sin that a man does is apart from the body, but the unchaste sins against his own body.

Colossians 3:5

5 Treat the members of your earthly bodies as dead — dead to unchastity, impurity, passion, evil desire, and avarice, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

3 For this is the will of God: to have you become holy and have you shun unchastity; 4 to have each of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, as the Gentiles do who know not God;

1 Peter 2:11

11 Beloved, I beg you, as foreigners and resident aliens, to shun the passions of the flesh which war against the soul.

Galatians 5:19-21

19 The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency, 20 idolatry, magic, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions, 21 envyings, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like. Of these I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 John 2:16

16 for all that is in the world, the passions of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the show and pride of life, is not from the Father, but from the world.

Galatians 5:16

16 I say, walk in the Spirit and you will not carry out the passions of the flesh.

2 Timothy 2:22

22 But flee the passions of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, in the company of those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Matthew 5:28

28 But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman with lustful thoughts has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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