Spiritual Warfare on How to Deal with Lust.

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Spiritual Warfare Scriptures on How to Deal with Lust.

1 Corinthians 6:15-20 (NIV)
¹⁵Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
¹⁶Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."
¹⁷But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
¹⁸Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
¹⁹Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
²⁰you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

Galatians 5:16-17 (NIV)
¹⁶So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
¹⁷For 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.

1 Corinthians 10:13 (NIV)
¹³No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

Spiritual Warfare Scriptures on How to Deal with Lust.

Ephesians 4:22-24 (NIV)
²²You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
²³to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
²⁴and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:27 (NIV)
²⁷and do not give the devil a foothold.

James 4:7 (NIV)
⁷Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Proverbs 6:25-26 (NIV)
²⁵Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,
²⁶for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Spiritual Warfare Scriptures on How to Deal with Lust.

Proverbs 7:24-27 (NIV)
²⁴Now then, my sons, listen to me; pay attention to what I say.
²⁵Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.
²⁶Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng.
²⁷Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.

2 Peter 2:9 (NIV)
⁹if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.

James 1:2-4 (NIV)
²Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
³because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
⁴Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Hebrews 4:15 (NIV)
¹⁵For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin.

Spiritual Warfare Scriptures on How to Deal with Lust.

2 Corinthians 10:4 (NIV)
⁴The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

Proverbs 15:27 (NIV)
²⁷A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live.

Proverbs 15:29 (NIV)
²⁹The LORD is far from the wicked but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Mark 11:15 (NIV)
¹⁵On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves,

Mark 11:17 (NIV)
¹⁷And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: "'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it 'a den of robbers.'"

Spiritual Warfare Scriptures on How to Deal with Lust.

Proverbs 28:22 (NIV)
²²A stingy man is eager to get rich and is unaware that poverty awaits him.

Proverbs 27:24 (NIV)
²⁴for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.

Isaiah 31:7 (NIV)
⁷For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.

Spiritual Warfare Scriptures on How to Deal with Lust.

Matthew 18:8-9 (NIV)
⁸If your hand or your foot causes you to sin cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
⁹And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

1 Corinthians 10:5-8 (NIV)
⁵Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.
⁶Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
⁷Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry."
⁸We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

Spiritual Warfare Scriptures on How to Deal with Lust.

Ephesians 5:5 (NIV)
⁵For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a man is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Ephesians 5:7-9 (NIV)
⁷Therefore do not be partners with them.
⁸For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light
⁹(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)

Ephesians 5:18 (NIV)
¹⁸Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.