16 Bible Verses about Evil Desires
Most Relevant Verses
But fly from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, divine love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a clean heart.
Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death.
and the cares of the age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and desires concerning other things coming into them, choke out the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
You are of your father the devil, and you wish to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there was no truth in him. When he may speak a lie, he speaks of his own: because he is a liar, and the father of the same.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it:
And I say, Walk about in the Spirit, and do not perfect the lust of carnality.
For carnality wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against carnality; for these are antagonistical to one another; so that you may not do the things which you may wish.
that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception;
But those wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown the people in destruction and perdition.
teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we must live prudently and righteously and holily in this present age;
You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask:
For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;
but I say unto you, that Elijah has already come, and they recognized Him not, but did unto Him so many things as they wished; thus the Son of man is also about to suffer by them.
