Thou Shalt Not Lust

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It’s a Sin to Lust

If we can get a proper perspective on the concept of LUST, some fallacies can be cleared up. Knowing the truth will make us free.

Here is the word, “lust” that the modern-day church tries to apply to all desire.

Lust G1939
επιθυμία
epithumia
ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah
From G1937; a longing (especially for what is forbidden): - concupiscence, desire, lust (after).
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should
obey it in the lustsG1939 thereof.

Rom 7:7 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 lustG1939, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Rom 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscenceG1939. For without the law sin was dead.

So, it appears as though “epithumia” is the word for forbidden desire. Thou shalt not sin. If you desire to sin, it’s “epithumia”--what the KJV calls “Lust”.

Lust G3715
ορεξις
orexis
or'-ex-is
From G3713; excitement of the mind, that is, longing after

Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lustG3715 one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:27 is the only time “orexis” is used.

Lust G1937
επιθυμέω
epithumeō
ep-ee-thoo-meh'-o
From G1909 and G2372; to set the heart upon, that is, long for (rightfully or otherwise)

Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lustG1937 after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

So, “epithumeo” looks like setting the heart upon something. Look again, closely, to see if the definition says anything about sexual thoughts.

Desire G3713
ορέγομαι
origami
or-eg'-om-ahee
Middle voice of apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary (compare G3735); to stretch oneself, that is, reach out after (long for)

1Ti 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desireG3713 the office of a bishop, he desirethG1937 a good work.

Lusts G2237
ηδονή
hēdonē
hay-don-ay'
From ανδάνω handanō (to please); sensual delight; by implication desire

“Sensual” does not mean sex. It means feelings of the body rather than the mind.

Desire to have G2206
ζηλόω
zēloō
dzay-lo'-o
From G2205; to have warmth of feeling for or against

Jas 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lustsG2237 (Sensual delight) that war in your members (bodies)?
Jas 4:2 Ye lustG1937 (set the heart upon), and have not: ye kill, and desire to haveG2206, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lustsG2237(Sensual delight).