23 Bible Verses about Evil Desires

And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.

And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed.

For in the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice, And I shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart, Passing in the street near her corner; and he will step the way of her house,read more.
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night, in the thick darkness: And behold, a woman to his meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hidden of heart She being noisy and perverse; her feet will not dwell in her house: One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner. She laid hold upon him and kissed to him; she strengthened her face, and she will say to him, Sacrifices of peace upon me: today I repaid my vows. For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee. With adornings I spread my bed, variegated with thread of Egypt I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon. Come, we will be satisfied with loves till the morning: we will rejoice ourselves with loves. For the man not in the house, he went in a way far off. He took a bundle of silver in his hand; he will come to his house the day of the full moon. With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away. He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish. Till an arrow shall cleave his liver; as a bird hastening to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul. And now, ye sons, hear to me, and attend to the sayings of my mouth. And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths. For she cast down many wounded, and the strong all being slain by her. Her house the ways to hades, going down to the chambers of death.

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death.

The soul of the unjust one desired evil: his neighbor shall not be compassionated in his eyes.

He will spare over it, and forsake it not, and keep it back in the midst of his palate:

And behold, I stretched forth my hand upon thee, and I will take away thy law, and I will give thee to the soul of those hating thee, the daughters of the rovers, being ashamed of thy way of wickedness.

Thou wilt not incline my heart to an evil word, to work works in injustice with men doing iniquity: and I will not eat upon their dainties.

And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions.

And I say, Walk in Spirit, and complete not the desire of the flesh.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do.

For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;

And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

They shall not say in their heart, Aha! our soul. They shall not say, We swallowed him down.

Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

And I say to you, That Elias has already come, and they knew him not, but did by him whatever they would. So also the Son of man is about to suffer by them.

If thou shalt do well thou shalt be lifted up; and if thou shalt not do well, sin lies at the entrance; and to thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.