Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

The lust of the flesh

Numbers 11:4
And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?
Psalm 78:18
And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;
Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.
1 Corinthians 10:6
But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;
Ephesians 2:3
among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
Titus 2:12
teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,
Titus 3:3
For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
1 Peter 1:14
as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Peter 4:2
no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.
2 Peter 2:10
and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

And the lust

Genesis 3:6
And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
Joshua 7:21
I saw among the spoils a beautiful mantle of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a golden bar of fifty shekels weight, and I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Job 31:1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
Psalm 119:36
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to gain.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
Matthew 4:8
Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,
Luke 4:5
And the devil, leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.

And the pride

Esther 1:3
in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of the provinces being before him;
Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;
Daniel 4:30
the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
Revelation 18:11
And the merchants of the earth weep and grieve over her, because no one buys their lading any more;

Is not

James 3:15
This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.

General references

Leviticus 11:20
Every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four shall be an abomination unto you.
Proverbs 23:31
Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;
Mark 4:7
And another fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Luke 14:33
Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.