Bible Verses About Lust: Evil desire

If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

For it is a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

For a fire it is , to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,

To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing,

and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it .

because all that is in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain--to the age.