16 Bible Verses about Evil Desires

But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his desires, and enticed;

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

then the desire taking effect produces sin, and sin being finished brings forth death.

and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things coming in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies].

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires,

And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.

that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires,

But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask;

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

But I tell you Elijah has come already, and they knew him not, but did to him what they pleased. In like manner, also, the Son of man is about to suffer from them.