What Does the Bible Say About Lust? 15+ Verses on Purity and Temptation

"but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart."

"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s."

"But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh."

"For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;"

"Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart."

"Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body."

"Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;"

"But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death."

"“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?"

"But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts."

"Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids."

"Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;"

"If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna."

"Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts."

"I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me."

"No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."

"For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;"

"But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;"