Bible Verses About Overcoming Sin, Temptation, And Lustful Thoughts

Due to Adam and Eve now we all are sinners and we cannot cleanse ourselves from our sins. This sin has separated us from our God. But the love of God made him take the form of a man and he paid the cost of salvation by his life on the cross.

Now we can wash away our sins through the blood of Jesus. When we receive Jesus and start to obey his commandments, we realize our sinful conditions.

We can now fight the spiritual battle and overcome the temptations that we face.  We get the power to overcome the lustful thoughts that arise in our hearts.

Jesus makes us worthy to enter his kingdom when we allow him to work in our lives. We become a new person and get victory over sin and temptations.

Let us look at the following Bible verses which will help us to get rid of sin and temptations that make us unholy before the Lord.

Bible Verses About Overcoming Sin Temptation And Lustful Thoughts (1 Peter 2:24)

1 Peter 2:24(KJV) Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

2 Corinthians 5:17(KJV) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

1 Corinthians 10:13(KJV) There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

James 4:7(KJV) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Bible Verses About Overcoming Sin Temptation And Lustful Thoughts (Matthew 6:13)

Matthew 6:13(KJV) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Romans 12:2(KJV) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Galatians 5:24(KJV) And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

James 1:14(KJV) But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Bible Verses About Overcoming Sin Temptation And Lustful Thoughts (James 4:17)

James 4:17(KJV) Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

1 John 1:9(KJV) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 15:33(KJV) Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Psalm 119:11(KJV) Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Bible Verses About Overcoming Sin Temptation And Lustful Thoughts (1 John 2:6)

1 John 2:6(KJV) He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

1 John 5:4(KJV) For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

1 John 1:8(KJV) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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