Scripture Search on the Subject of Lust

1. Genesis 39:7
and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded

2. Exodus 34:15 (Whole Chapter)
“You must not make a treaty of any kind with the people living in the land. They lust after their gods, offering sacrifices to them. They will invite you to join them in their sacrificial meals, and you will go with them.

3. Job 22:24 (Whole Chapter)
If you give up your lust for moneyand throw your precious gold into the river,

4. Job 31:1 (Whole Chapter)
[ Job’s Final Protest of Innocence ] “I made a covenant with my eyesnot to look with lust at a young woman.

5. Job 31:7 (Whole Chapter)
If I have strayed from his pathway,or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen,or if I am guilty of any other sin,

6. Job 31:9 (Whole Chapter)
“If my heart has been seduced by a woman,or if I have lusted for my neighbor’s wife,

7. Job 31:11 (Whole Chapter)
For lust is a shameful sin,a crime that should be punished.

8. Proverbs 6:25 (Whole Chapter)
Don’t lust for her beauty.Don’t let her coy glances seduce you.

9. Jeremiah 2:24 (Whole Chapter)
You are like a wild donkey,sniffing the wind at mating time.Who can restrain her lust?Those who desire her don’t need to search,for she goes running to them!

10. Jeremiah 5:8 (Whole Chapter)
They are well-fed, lusty stallions,each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.

11. Jeremiah 13:27 (Whole Chapter)
I have seen your adultery and lust,and your disgusting idol worship out in the fields and on the hills.What sorrow awaits you, Jerusalem!How long before you are pure?”

12. Lamentations 4:1 (Whole Chapter)
[ God’s Anger Satisfied ] How the gold has lost its luster!Even the finest gold has become dull.The sacred gemstoneslie scattered in the streets!

13. Ezekiel 6:9 (Whole Chapter)
Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how hurt I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for their idols. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their detestable sins.

14. Ezekiel 16:26 (Whole Chapter)
Then you added lustful Egypt to your lovers, provoking my anger with your increasing promiscuity.

15. Ezekiel 16:36 (Whole Chapter)
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have poured out your lust and exposed yourself in prostitution to all your lovers, and because you have worshiped detestable idols, [ The Hebrew term (literally round things) probably alludes to dung.] and because you have slaughtered your children as sacrifices to your gods,

16. Ezekiel 23:5 (Whole Chapter)
“Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrian officers.

17. Ezekiel 23:11 (Whole Chapter)
“Yet even though Oholibah saw what had happened to Oholah, her sister, she followed right in her footsteps. And she was even more depraved, abandoning herself to her lust and prostitution.

18. Ezekiel 23:18 (Whole Chapter)
“In the same way, I became disgusted with Oholibah and rejected her, just as I had rejected her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to satisfy their lusts.

19. Ezekiel 23:20 (Whole Chapter)
She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse.

20. Ezekiel 23:42 (Whole Chapter)
From your room came the sound of many men carousing. They were lustful men and drunkards [ Or Sabeans.] from the wilderness, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your heads.

21. Ezekiel 33:31 (Whole Chapter)
So my people come pretending to be sincere and sit before you. They listen to your words, but they have no intention of doing what you say. Their mouths are full of lustful words, and their hearts seek only after money.

22. Hosea 7:4 (Whole Chapter)
They are all adulterers,always aflame with lust.They are like an oven that is kept hot while the baker is kneading the dough.

23. Matthew 5:28 (Whole Chapter)
But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

24. Matthew 5:29 (Whole Chapter)
So if your eye—even your good eye [ Greek your right eye.] —causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

25. Mark 7:22 (Whole Chapter)
adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

26. Romans 1:27
and the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.

27. 1 Corinthians 7:9 (Whole Chapter)
But if they can’t control themselves, they should go ahead and marry. It’s better to marry than to burn with lust.

28. 2 Corinthians 12:21 (Whole Chapter)
Yes, I am afraid that when I come again, God will humble me in your presence. And I will be grieved because many of you have not given up your old sins. You have not repented of your impurity, sexual immorality, and eagerness for lustful pleasure.

29. Galatians 5:19 (Whole Chapter)
When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures,

30. Ephesians 4:19 (Whole Chapter)
They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity.

31. Ephesians 4:22 (Whole Chapter)
throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.

32. Colossians 3:5 (Whole Chapter)
So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.

33. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 (Whole Chapter)
not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

34. 2 Timothy 2:22 (Whole Chapter)
Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

35. Titus 3:3 (Whole Chapter)
Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other.

36. 1 Peter 4:3 (Whole Chapter)
You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul and with all your strength, and love your neighbor as you have loved yourself."

Pastor Linh