Bible Verses About Lust
Verses on overcoming lust — the call to purity, the power of covenant, and the freedom available through Christ.
Lust is the counterfeit of love — it takes rather than gives, consumes rather than cherishes. These verses on lust call you to make a covenant with your eyes, to flee fleshly desires that war against your soul, and to think on what is true, pure, and lovely. You are not helpless against temptation — God always provides a way out. In Christ, there is real freedom from the patterns that enslave. What was designed to diminish you does not have to define you.
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
1 Corinthians 6:18
More Verses for Lust
“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
2 Timothy 2:22
“I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?”
Job 31:1
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.”
1 Peter 2:11
“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
Matthew 5:28
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