If you’re looking for scriptures on lust, it’s important to know that lust isn’t just about actions, it starts with the thoughts we choose to hold on to. Jesus said, “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” (Matthew 5:28, NIV).
1. Job 31:1
I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman. (NIV)
2. Proverbs 6:25
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. (NIV)
3. Proverbs 7:25–26
Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths. Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng. (NIV)
4. Ecclesiastes 7:26
I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. (NIV)
5. Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them. (NIV)
6. Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (NIV)
7. Matthew 6:22–23
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. (NIV)
8. Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. (NIV)
9. Mark 7:21–23
For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder… All these evils come from inside and defile a person. (NIV)
10. John 8:34
Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. (NIV)
11. Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. (NIV)
12. Romans 8:5
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires. (NIV)
13. Romans 13:14
Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh. (NIV)
14. 1 Corinthians 6:13
The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. (NIV)
15. 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. (NIV)
16. 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. (NIV)
17. 2 Corinthians 10:5
We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (NIV)
18. Galatians 5:16
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. (NIV)
19. Galatians 5:19–21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery… I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (NIV)
20. Ephesians 4:22
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires. (NIV)
21. 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, because these are improper for God’s holy people. (NIV)
22. Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right… think about such things. (NIV)
23. Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. (NIV)
24. 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5
It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality… not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God. (NIV)
25. 1 Timothy 6:11
But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. (NIV)
26. 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. (NIV)
27. Titus 2:11–12
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions. (NIV)
28. 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. (NIV)
29. James 1:14–15
But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. (NIV)
30. James 4:7
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (NIV)
31. 1 Peter 1:14–15
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do. (NIV)
32. 1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (NIV)
33. 1 Peter 4:3
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness… (NIV)
34. 2 Peter 1:4
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. (NIV)
35. 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 from those who live in error. (NIV)
36. 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. (NIV)
37. 1 John 3:3
All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. (NIV)
38. 1 John 3:6
No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. (NIV)
39. 1 John 5:18
We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. (NIV)
40. Jude 1:7
In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. (NIV)
41. Jude 1:18–19
They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. (NIV)
42. Revelation 2:21
I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. (NIV)
43. Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral… they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. (NIV)
44. Psalm 119:9
How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. (NIV)
45. Psalm 101:3
I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it. (NIV)
46. Psalm 51:10
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. (NIV)
47. Psalm 19:14
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. (NIV)
48. Genesis 39:9
How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God? (NIV)
49. Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. (NIV)
50. 2 Samuel 22:24
I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin. (NIV)