86 Bible Verses about Fantasizing

James 1:14-15 ESV / 82 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 49 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 49 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Titus 1:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

Proverbs 6:25 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Leviticus 19:1-37 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God. “When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. ...

Galatians 6:3-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Proverbs 28:19 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

John 14:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Psalm 73:1-28 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped. For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek. They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind. ...

Isaiah 8:1-22 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the Lord said to me, “Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’ And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.” And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz; for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.” The Lord spoke to me again: ...

Genesis 39:7-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.” But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house, ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

John 5:1-47 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ...

John 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Song of Solomon 4:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.

Proverbs 3:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

1 Timothy 5:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

Ezekiel 23:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.

Jude 1:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

James 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 10:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. ...

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

John 10:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Matthew 5:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

Matthew 5:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ...

Song of Solomon 4:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

Song of Solomon 4:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 73:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Leviticus 19:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Jude 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Hebrews 9:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.

2 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

1 Timothy 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Honor widows who are truly widows.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Ephesians 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

John 14:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

John 8:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 10:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Ezekiel 23:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The word of the Lord came to me:

Jeremiah 31:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,

Isaiah 53:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

Isaiah 8:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

Song of Solomon 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.

Song of Solomon 4:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

Proverbs 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Psalm 73:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.

Psalm 73:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

James 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

2 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Matthew 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Isaiah 8:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

Song of Solomon 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.

Song of Solomon 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!