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Bible Scriptures on Lust from the Word of God.

James 4:1-4 (NIV)
¹ What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?
² You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
³ When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
⁴ You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

1 John 2:16-17 (NIV)
¹⁶ For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.
¹⁷ The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

Matthew 5:27-28 (NIV)
²⁷ "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'
²⁸ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Bible Scriptures on Lust.

Proverbs 6:25-29 (NIV)
²⁵ Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,
²⁶ for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
²⁷ Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
²⁸ Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
²⁹ So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

James 4:7-8 (NIV)
⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Bible Scriptures on Lust.

1 Peter 2:11 (NIV)
¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.

1 Peter 1:14-16 (NIV)
¹⁴ As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
¹⁵ But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
¹⁶ for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

Bible Scriptures on Lust.

2 Timothy 2:22 (NIV)
²² Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Titus 3:3-5 (NIV)
³ At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
⁴ But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,
⁵ he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

Bible Scriptures on Lust.

Ephesians 2:3-6 (NIV)
³ All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.
⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.
⁶ And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Titus 2:11-12 (NIV)
¹¹ For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
¹² It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,

Bible Scriptures on Lust.

James 1:13 (NIV)
¹³ When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;

Galatians 5:24 (NIV)
²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.

Jude 1:18-21 (NIV)
¹⁸ They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires."
¹⁹ These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.
²⁰ But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.
²¹ Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

Bible Scriptures on Lust.

Galatians 5:16-17 (NIV)
¹⁶ So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
¹⁷ For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Romans 6:11-12 (NIV)
¹¹ In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

Romans 6:14 (NIV)
¹⁴ For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

2 Peter 1:4 (NIV)
⁴ Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Bible Scriptures on Lust from God’s Word.

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