150 Bible verse about lust

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150 Bible verse about lust

150 Bible verse about lust

Here is a comprehensive, expert-curated collection of 150 Bible Verses focused on the topics of lust, sexual immorality, purity, temptation, and the battle between the flesh and the spirit.

As a theologian, I have organized these into thematic sections to help you study the progression from the warning against lust to the promise of redemption and strength.

I. Jesus on Lust and the Heart

 

The core teachings of Christ regarding the root of sin.

1. Matthew 5:27 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’”

2. Matthew 5:28 – “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

3. Matthew 5:29 – “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away.”

4. Matthew 5:30 – “And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away.”

5. Mark 7:20 – “He went on: ‘What comes out of a person is what defiles them.'”

6. Mark 7:21 – “For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder…”

7. Mark 7:22 – “…adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.”

8. Mark 7:23 – “All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

9. Matthew 15:19 – “For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.”

10. Luke 12:15 – “Then he said to them, ‘Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.'” (Lust for things).

11. John 8:34 – “Jesus replied, ‘Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.'”

II. Fleeing Sexual Immorality (Paul’s Epistles)

 

Direct commands to the early church regarding bodily purity.

12. 1 Corinthians 6:18 – “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.”

13. 1 Corinthians 6:9 – “Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived…”

14. 1 Corinthians 6:10 – “…neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men…”

15. 1 Corinthians 6:13 – “The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.”

16. 1 Corinthians 6:15 – “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?”

17. 1 Corinthians 6:19 – “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?”

18. 1 Corinthians 6:20 – “You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”

19. 1 Corinthians 7:2 – “But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”

20. 1 Corinthians 7:9 – “But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.”

21. 1 Corinthians 10:8 – “We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.”

22. 1 Corinthians 10:13 – “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.”

23. Galatians 5:16 – “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”

24. Galatians 5:17 – “For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.”

25. Galatians 5:19 – “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery.”

26. Galatians 5:24 – “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”

27. Ephesians 4:22 – “You were taught… to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires.”

28. Ephesians 5:3 – “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.”

29. Ephesians 5:5 – “For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person… has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”

30. Ephesians 5:12 – “It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.”

31. Colossians 3:5 – “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.”

32. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 – “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality.”

33. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 – “That each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable.”

34. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 – “Not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God.”

35. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 – “For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.”

36. 1 Timothy 1:10 – “For the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers…”

37. 2 Timothy 2:22 – “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.”

38. Titus 2:12 – “It teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives.”

39. Titus 3:3 – “At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures.”

40. Romans 1:24 – “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.”

41. Romans 1:26 – “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.”

42. Romans 1:27 – “Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”

43. Romans 6:12 – “Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.”

44. Romans 6:13 – “Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness.”

45. Romans 8:5 – “Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires.”

46. Romans 8:6 – “The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.”

47. Romans 8:8 – “Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.”

48. Romans 8:12 – “Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.”

49. Romans 8:13 – “For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.”

50. Romans 13:13 – “Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery.”

51. Romans 13:14 – “Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.”

III. The Wisdom of Solomon (Proverbs)

 

Warnings against the trap of lust and the adulterous woman.

52. Proverbs 5:1 – “My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of insight.”

53. Proverbs 5:3 – “For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.”

54. Proverbs 5:4 – “But in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.”

55. Proverbs 5:5 – “Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.”

56. Proverbs 5:8 – “Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house.”

57. Proverbs 5:11 – “At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.”

58. Proverbs 5:15 – “Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.”

59. Proverbs 5:20 – “Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?”

60. Proverbs 5:22 – “The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.”

61. Proverbs 6:23 – “For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light.”

62. Proverbs 6:24 – “Keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.”

63. Proverbs 6:25 – “Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.”

64. Proverbs 6:26 – “For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.”

65. Proverbs 6:27 – “Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?”

66. Proverbs 6:28 – “Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?”

67. Proverbs 6:29 – “So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.”

68. Proverbs 6:32 – “But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.”

69. Proverbs 7:6 – “At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.”

70. Proverbs 7:7 – “I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.”

71. Proverbs 7:10 – “Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.”

72. Proverbs 7:21 – “With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk.”

73. Proverbs 7:22 – “All at once he followed her like an ox going to the slaughter.”

74. Proverbs 7:23 – “Like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life.”

75. Proverbs 7:25 – “Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.”

76. Proverbs 7:26 – “Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng.”

77. Proverbs 7:27 – “Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.”

78. Proverbs 22:14 – “The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.”

79. Proverbs 23:27 – “For a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward wife is a narrow well.”

80. Proverbs 30:20 – “This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’”

81. Proverbs 31:3 – “Do not spend your strength on women, your vigor on those who ruin kings.”

IV. General Epistles & Revelation

 

Warnings on the nature of desire and the end of times.

82. James 1:13 – “When tempted, no one should say, ‘God is tempting me.’ For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.”

83. James 1:14 – “But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.”

84. James 1:15 – “Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.”

85. James 4:1 – “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?”

86. James 4:3 – “When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.”

87. James 4:4 – “You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God?”

88. 1 Peter 1:14 – “As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.”

89. 1 Peter 2:11 – “Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.”

90. 1 Peter 4:2 – “As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.”

91. 1 Peter 4:3 – “For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.”

92. 2 Peter 1:4 – “Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that… you may escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”

93. 2 Peter 2:9 – “The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.”

94. 2 Peter 2:10 – “This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority.”

95. 2 Peter 2:12 – “They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed.”

96. 2 Peter 2:14 – “With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable.”

97. 2 Peter 2:18 – “For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping.”

98. 2 Peter 3:3 – “In the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.”

99. 1 John 2:15 – “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.”

100. 1 John 2:16 – “For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”

101. 1 John 2:17 – “The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.”

102. Jude 1:4 – “For certain individuals… have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality.”

103. Jude 1:7 – “In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah… gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion.”

104. Jude 1:16 – “These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires.”

105. Jude 1:18 – “They said to you, ‘In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.'”

106. Jude 1:19 – “These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.”

107. Revelation 2:20 – “You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality.”

108. Revelation 18:3 – “For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries.”

109. Revelation 21:8 – “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral… their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur.”

110. Revelation 22:15 – “Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters…”

V. Old Testament Foundations (Law & Prophets)

 

The commandments and the call to holiness.

111. Exodus 20:14 – “You shall not commit adultery.”

112. Exodus 20:17 – “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house… your neighbor’s wife… or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

113. Leviticus 18:20 – “Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.”

114. Leviticus 18:22 – “Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.”

115. Leviticus 19:29 – “Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.”

116. Leviticus 20:10 – “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.”

117. Numbers 15:39 – “You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord… and not prostitute yourselves by going after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.”

118. Deuteronomy 5:18 – “You shall not commit adultery.”

119. Deuteronomy 5:21 – “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.”

120. 2 Samuel 11:2 – “One evening David… saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful.” (The danger of looking).

121. 2 Samuel 11:27 – “But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.”

122. Job 24:15 – “The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.”

123. Job 31:1 – “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.”

124. Job 31:9 – “If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door…”

125. Job 31:11 – “For that would have been wicked, a sin to be judged.”

126. Job 31:12 – “It is a fire that burns to Destruction; it would have uprooted my harvest.”

127. Psalm 51:1 – “Have mercy on me, O God… blot out my transgressions.” (David’s repentance).

128. Psalm 51:2 – “Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.”

129. Psalm 51:10 – “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”

130. Psalm 81:12 – “So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.”

131. Psalm 101:3 – “I will not look with approval on anything that is vile.”

132. Psalm 119:9 – “How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.”

133. Psalm 119:11 – “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”

134. Psalm 119:37 – “Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.”

135. Ecclesiastes 7:26 – “I found more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains.”

136. Song of Solomon 2:7 – “Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.”

137. Isaiah 57:5 – “You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree.”

138. Jeremiah 5:8 – “They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man’s wife.”

139. Jeremiah 13:27 – “Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields.”

140. Ezekiel 16:26 – “You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and provoked me to anger with your increasing promiscuity.”

141. Ezekiel 23:20 – “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”

142. Ezekiel 33:31 – “With their mouths they express devotion, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.”

143. Hosea 4:10 – “They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not flourish.”

144. Hosea 4:11 – “To prostitution, to old wine and new, which take away the understanding.”

145. Hosea 7:4 – “They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir.”

146. Malachi 3:5 – “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers.”

147. Genesis 39:7 – “And after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, ‘Come to bed with me!'” (The Temptation of Joseph).

148. Genesis 39:8 – “But he refused.”

149. Genesis 39:9 – “How then could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”

150. Hebrews 13:4 – “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.”