Lust

Question 1

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Answer 1

1 Peter 2:11

Question 2

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Answer 2

James 1:13-14

Question 3

Behold, God himself is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them for ever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all trouble.

Answer 3

2 Esdras 16:67

Question 4

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Answer 4

Romans 13:14

Question 5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Answer 5

Colossians 3:5

Question 6

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Answer 6

Galations 5:17-21

Question 7

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Answer 7

Romans 7:7

Question 8

Go not after thy lusts, but refrain thyself from thine appetites.
If thou givest thy soul the desires that please her, she will make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies that malign thee.

Answer 8

Ecclesiasticus 18:30-31

Question 9

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Answer 9

Job 31:1

Question 10

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Answer 10

Galations 5:16