Jesus said, “You know the next commandment pretty
well, too: ‘Don’t go to bed with another’s spouse.’ But
don’t think you’ve preserved your virtue simply by staying
out of bed. Your heart can be corrupted by lust even
quicker than your body. Those leering looks you think
nobody notices—they also corrupt.”—Matthew 5:27-28

“Using the legalities of divorce as a cover for lust is
adultery. Using the legalities of marriage as a cover for
lust is adultery.”—Luke 16:18

Since we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything—
and I do mean everything—connected with
that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and
through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new
way of life—a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from
the inside and working itself into your conduct as God
accurately reproduces his character in you.
—Ephesians 4:22

Don’t allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill
slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying
greed.—Ephesians 5:3

Be content with obscurity, like Christ. And that means
killing off everything connected with the way of death:
sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you
feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever
attracts your fancy. That’s a life shaped by things
and feelings instead of by God.—Colossians 3:4-5

Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble.
Going down that path, some lose their footing in
the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever
after.—1 Timothy 6:10

It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and
stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our
glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated
and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving
Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was
all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us
a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed
inside and out by the Holy Spirit.—Titus 3:3-5

Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to
adulthood, and becomes a real killer.—James 1:15

Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels
come from? Do you think they just happen? Think
again. They come about because you want your own
way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for
what you don’t have and are willing to kill to get it. You
want what isn’t yours and will risk violence to get your
hands on it. You wouldn’t think of just asking God for it, would
you? And why not? Because you know you’d be asking
for what you have no right to. You’re spoiled children,
each wanting your own way. You’re cheating on God. If all you want is your own
way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you
end up enemies of God and his way.—James 4:1-4

So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the
Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God
and he’ll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin.
Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field.
—James 4:7-8

This world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves
cozy in it. Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of
your soul.—1 Peter 2:11

We were given absolutely terrific promises to pass on
to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God
after you turned your back on a world corrupted by
lust.—2 Peter 1:4

Practically everything that goes on in the world—
wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself,
wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with
the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and
all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—
but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
—1 John 2:16-17