16 Bible Verses about Evil Desires

But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

But each one is tempted when by his own lust he is led away and enticed;

Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

then lust, having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when completed, bringeth forth death.

but the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Ye are of your father the Devil, and what your father desireth ye are ready to do. He was a murderer from the beginning; and he abideth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Let not then sin reign in your mortal body, bringing you into subjection to its lusts,

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

For the flesh hath desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these oppose one another, that ye may not do the things that ye would.

that as to your former way of life ye should put off the old man, who perisheth according to the lusts of deceit,

But they who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in the present world;

Ye lust, and have not; ye kill, and earnestly covet, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war. Ye have not, because ye ask not;

For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.

For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they allure in the lusts of the flesh, by dissolute ways, such as were in some measure escaping from those who live in error;

But I say to you, that Elijah hath already come, and they knew him not, but did with him whatever they would. So also is the Son of man to suffer by them.