GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Lust
See also Sensual, Sensuality

To have an inappropriately strong desire for something.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, Prov. 6: 25. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery, Matt. 5: 28 (3 Ne. 12: 28). Men burned in their lust one toward another, Rom. 1: 27. After their own lusts they shall heap to themselves teachers, 2 Tim. 4: 3-4. Laban saw our property and did lust after it, 1 Ne. 3: 25. Go no more after the lusts of your eyes, Alma 39: 3-4, 9. He that looketh upon a woman to lust after her shall deny the faith, D&C 42: 23. Cease from all your lustful desires, D&C 88: 121.