Lust - There's A Scripture For That (ESV) Version -

Do not love the world or the things in the world.

Synonyms for Lust: passion, desire, concupiscence, lustfulness, salaciousness, horniness, itch, lechery, libido, licentiousness, carnality, and lewdness

Proverbs 6:24-26 (ESV)
to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. 25. Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; 26. for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.

Jeremiah 5:7-9 (ESV)
“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores. 8. They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife. 9. Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?

Jeremiah 13:27 (ESV)
I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”

Ezekiel 6:9 (ESV)
then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

Nahum 3:4-5 (ESV)
And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms. 5. Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.

Matthew 5:27-28 (ESV)
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Mark 7:21-23 (ESV)
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22. coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Acts 15:29 (ESV)
that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Romans 1:26-28 (ESV)
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27. and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 13:13 (ESV)
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Colossians 3:5-6 (ESV)
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 (ESV)
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4. that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5. not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

1 Peter 4:3-5 (ESV)
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. 4. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; 5. but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

2 Peter 2:18-19 (ESV)
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. 19. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.

1 John 2:15-17 (ESV)
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Do not love the world or the things in the world.

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