Lust

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For 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.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

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

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

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. — read the full passage →

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

For 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. — read the full passage →

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. — read the full passage →

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within. — read the full passage →

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? — read the full passage →

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. — read the full passage →

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.