Bible Verses About Lust
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for lust, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 679,548 votes, led by Matthew 5:28. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lust
Matthew 5:2819,658 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
1 John 2:1618,518 votes
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.
Galatians 5:1616,406 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Colossians 3:514,934 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
2 Timothy 2:2214,660 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Job 31:112,800 votes
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
1 Corinthians 6:1811,329 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Proverbs 6:2510,961 votes
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
1 Peter 2:1110,840 votes
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
James 1:14-1510,747 votes
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-510,299 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Galatians 5:19-219,907 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Romans 13:148,632 votes
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1 Corinthians 6:138,627 votes
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.
Hebrews 13:48,519 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Romans 8:67,846 votes
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Exodus 20:177,479 votes
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.
Romans 7:77,352 votes
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.
James 1:147,192 votes
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Exodus 20:146,845 votes
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Matthew 5:27-286,575 votes
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Galatians 5:176,490 votes
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.
James 1:156,291 votes
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Genesis 3:65,903 votes
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.
1 John 2:15-175,581 votes
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.