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Top 25 Bible Verses About Lust (KJV)

This is a hand-curated and ranked list of 25 of the most relevant Bible verses about Lust (KJV). Verses are ranked by number of votes.

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Matthew 5:28

#1
7150 votes
28 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 2:16

#2
6233 votes
16 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 5:16

#3
5294 votes
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Colossians 3:5

#4
4918 votes
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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2 Timothy 2:22

#6
4872 votes
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Job 31:1

#7
3890 votes
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

1 Corinthians 6:18

#8
3848 votes
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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1 Peter 2:11

#10
3609 votes
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Proverbs 6:25

#11
3563 votes
25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

James 1:14-15

#12
3354 votes
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

#14
3270 votes
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Galatians 5:19-21

#15
3199 votes
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Hebrews 13:4

#16
2932 votes
4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Romans 13:14

#18
2750 votes
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

1 Corinthians 6:13

#19
2666 votes
13 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.

Exodus 20:17

#20
2622 votes
17 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.
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James 1:14

#22
2612 votes
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Romans 8:6

#23
2404 votes
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Exodus 20:14

#24
2320 votes
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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Romans 7:7

#26
2262 votes
7 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 1:15

#27
2071 votes
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Genesis 3:6

#28
2065 votes
6 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 Corinthians 6:9-10

#29
1980 votes
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 4:22

#30
1929 votes
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Galatians 5:24

#31
1873 votes
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
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