Bible verses about "lust" | MKJV

Job 31:1

1 I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

Proverbs 6:25

25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; nor let her take you with her eyelids.

1 Corinthians 6:18

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

Galatians 5:19-21

19 Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, fightings, jealousies, angers, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Colossians 3:5

5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication, 4 each one of you to know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor 5 (not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God),

1 Peter 2:11

11 Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

Galatians 5:16

16 I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

1 John 2:16

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

2 Timothy 2:22

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

Matthew 5:28

28 But I say to you that whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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