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Bible Verses About Lust and Sexual Purity

The Bible’s counsel about lust is direct: flee, guard your eyes, and fill your mind with what is pure. These passages give you each of those in words you can say.

When to say them. Say them when you are alone, before you pick up a phone, and when you need to turn and walk away.

6 passages to memorize

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:18–20 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  2. 2 Timothy 2:22 Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
    An example of praying it: Lord, help me flee. I do not want to stand near this and see how long I last. Turn me to pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, and put me alongside people who call on you out of a pure heart.
  3. Job 31:1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes.How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
  4. 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
  5. Psalm 119:9 How can a young man keep his way pure?By guarding it according to Your word.
  6. Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think on these things.

You can pray any of these passages, memorized or not. How to pray scripture.

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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible or World English Bible, as you choose under “Bible text”. The coach’s voice is computer-generated.