Lust

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 3:6 OT

  When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate…

• Exodus 20:17 OT

  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

• Job 31:9-12 OT

  “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door, then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her. For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the…

• Psalms 81:12 OT

  So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

• Proverbs 6:24 OT

  to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

• Proverbs 6:25 OT

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

• Matthew 5:28 NT

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

• Mark 4:19 NT

  and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

• John 8:44 NT

  You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is…

• 1 Corinthians 9:27 NT

  but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

• 1 Corinthians 10:6 NT

  Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

• 1 Corinthians 10:7 NT

  Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

• Ephesians 4:22 NT

  that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

• 1 Timothy 6:9 NT

  But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

• 2 Timothy 2:22 NT

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

• 2 Timothy 4:3 NT

  For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

• 2 Timothy 4:4 NT

  and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

• Titus 2:12 NT

  instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

• James 1:14 NT

  But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

• James 1:15 NT

  Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

• James 4:1-3 NT

  Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.…

• 1 Peter 2:11 NT

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

• 1 Peter 4:3 NT

  For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

• 2 Peter 2:18 NT

  For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;