16 Bible Verses about Evil Desires

Avoid the passions of youth. pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians.

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

and the genuine offspring of sin is death.

but the cares of this life, the deceitful love of riches, and a crowd of different passions, stifle the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

you, who have the devil for your father, will execute the designs of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and deserted the truth, since he has no love for the truth: when he lyes, he speaks like himself: for he is a lyar, and the father of a lyar.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.

I say then, conduct yourselves by the spirit, and you will not then gratify the animal passions.

for the vicious desires are contrary to those of the spirit, and the inclinations of the spirit are contrary to those of the animal part; these are opposite to each other, so that you do not the things that you would.

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:

themselves to temptations and snares, and to many foolish noxious passions, which plunge men into ruin and perdition. for the love of money is the root of all evil:

teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;

you quarrel and go to war, but without success, because you don't petition for it: and if you did,

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

when their language swells with vanity, by applying to the sensual passions of the licentious, they allure those who were escap'd for a while, from such deceivers:

but I tell you, that Elias is already come, tho' they knew him not, but treated him in an arbitrary manner; with such usage as the son of man shall likewise suffer at their hands.