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75 Biblical Ways to Resist Sexual Temptation

by Alan Sharpe October 13, 2022

If you want to resist unwanted sexual urges and overcome sexual temptation, here are 75 ways from the Bible (including the Bible) to overcome sexual temptation.

by Alan Sharpe October 13, 2022

If you are a Christian and if you are even remotely healthy, you face sexual temptation on occasion. If you want to resist these urges so that you do not fall into sin, here are some biblical ways to overcome sexual temptation (including the Bible).

1. Count the Cost
Sexual sin comes at a price, in this life and in the next. For one thing, adulterers and the sexually immoral will not inherit the kingdom (Galatians 5:19-21). That’s the eternal cost—your soul, punished forever, in the lake of fire. But there’s also a price to pay in this life if you give in to sexual temptation. Think sexually transmitted diseases. Unwanted pregnancy. Divorce. Loss of custody of your kids. Getting fired. Scandal. Loss of your testimony. Jail time. Your name on the Sexual Offender Registry.

2. Clea

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Prevention
To Quit Porn, Obey One Do and One Don’t | Romans 13:14

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by Alan Sharpe August 22, 2022

The cure for habitual sexual sin, such as looking at pornography, is essentially one thing you are to do and one thing you are to avoid.

by Alan Sharpe August 22, 2022

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
Romans 13:14

Anyone who says the Bible is a book of do’s and don’ts is correct as far as quitting pornography is concerned. The cure for habitual sexual sin is essentially one thing you are to do and one thing you are not to do. Paul gives us each one at the end of the 13th chapter of his letter to the Romans. “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ,” says Paul, “and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”

“Put on the Lord Jesus Christ” is the do. You are commanded to clothe yourself with Christ. You are to put Him on in the same way that you are to “put on the full armor of God” (Ephesians 6:11). You are to adopt the spirit of Christ to such an extent that you reproduce it in your outward walk and conduct.

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Quiz
Quiz: Romans 13:14

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by Alan Sharpe May 26, 2022

“Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”
Romans 13:13-14

Questions

How does Paul characterize the struggle with sin?
What is the root problem beneath the six sins that Paul mentions?
How many of these six sins are sexual in nature?
How many remedies does Paul mention for lewdness and lust?
What stands out with these remedies?
How do you “put on the Lord Jesus Christ?”
How do you “make no provision for the flesh?”
Why is your flesh a problem?

Answers

Paul characterizes the struggle with sin as a walk. Not a battle to win, not a struggle to fight, but a walk to take with the Lord.
Discipline. The six sins that Paul mentions are examples of lack of self control.</li
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Prevention
To Conquer the Flesh, Quit YouTube | Romans 13:14

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by Alan Sharpe April 7, 2022

If you are serious about quitting pornography, you must avoid the video-sharing sites that arouse you sexually.

by Alan Sharpe April 7, 2022

“Make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”
Romans 13:14

Recovering drug addicts don’t carry heroin in their pockets. Recovering alcoholics don’t visit bars. And Christian men who want to quit pornography don’t mindlessly surf video-sharing sites. If you want to conquer your sinful flesh, you must make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil its lusts. This means getting off YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, TikTok and other video-sharing sites that host inappropriate videos.

I’m not talking about pornographic video sites. I’m talking about the popular sites that host videos that feature nudity, sexual inuendo, young women in bikinis, racy music videos, undressing, sex scenes from movies and TV shows, pool scenes, shower scenes, and more. Videos don’t have to be pornographic to be off limits. If they fulfil your lusts, they have to go.

If you are serious about quitting pornograp
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Obedience
To Conquer Porn, Change Your Mind | 1 Peter 4:1-2

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by Alan Sharpe March 4, 2022

To arm yourself with the mind of Christ means to be ready to suffer for Him. But there is an awesome payoff.

by Alan Sharpe March 4, 2022

“Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.”
1 Peter 4:1-2

Your primary weapon in your war against sexual sin isn’t filtering software, an accountability partner, a 12-step recovery program, an online forum or a therapist. Your primary weapon is your mind, a mind conformed to the mind of Christ. When you think as Christ thought during His earthly ministry, you stop sinning.

You are to arm yourself with the mind of Christ. That is, you and I are to view sin the way Christ viewed sin. We are to respond to temptation the way Christ responded to it. Christ was tempted in all points as we are, yet He never sinned (Hebrews 4:15). When we arm ourselves with the mind of Christ, we do the same.
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Prevention
Quit Porn Slowly and Painfully | Galatians 5:24

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by Alan Sharpe February 28, 2022

Crucifixion combined state torture with state execution to act as a deterrent. Remember this the next time you are tempted to watch porn or masturbate.

by Alan Sharpe February 28, 2022

“And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
Galatians 5:24

If you are trying to quit pornography and masturbation, don’t be surprised if the process is slow and agonizing. Sexual purity requires your crucifixion, after all. And when you are crucified, you are either tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and then left to hang on the cross until you die. You die from exhaustion, asphyxiation, loss of body fluids or organ failure. This unique form of capital punishment is neither quick nor painless.

Defeating pornography and masturbation requires you to crucify, not your body, but your passions and desires. If you belong to Christ, you are to take your sinful lusts and nail them to a cross until they die. When a wicked thought enters your mind, when you see an image online that stirs up your lust, you are to crucify it, put it to death, execute it. This is your responsibility. God doesn’t do this at
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Judgment
Porn Keeps You Out of the Kingdom of God | Galatians 5:19-21

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by Alan Sharpe February 24, 2022

Watching pornography and masturbating will keep you out of the kingdom of God. Paul put that in writing.

by Alan Sharpe February 24, 2022

“Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Galatians 5:19-21

What would you think if a visiting preacher stepped into your pulpit next Sunday and warned you that you are not going to inherit the kingdom of God if you continue to watch porn and masturbate? Would you label him a heretic? Phone your denominational headquarters and demand that the preacher be removed from the ministry? Or would you believe him?

This preacher visits your church and your home every week in the person of the Apostle Paul. When Paul wrote his letter to the churches of Galatia, he penned his wor
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Lust
Will Your Sexual Sin Become an Object Lesson? | 1 Corinthians 10:6

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by Alan Sharpe February 23, 2022

What would you do if God made your sexual sin an object lesson about how NOT to live the Christian life?

by Alan Sharpe February 23, 2022

“Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.”
1 Corinthians 10:6

What would you think if God took your sexual immorality, wrote about it in a book, and had hundreds of millions of people read about you over the centuries? What would you do if God made your sexual sin an object lesson about how not to live the Christian life?

The children of Israel wandered for 40 years in the wilderness because of their sin of unbelief. And during their wanderings, they strayed from God. “With most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness,” says Paul. What was their sin? Sexual immorality, among other things.

The children of Israel, that generation that escaped slavery in Egypt and was delivered from the hands of their oppressors through mighty signs and wonders from heaven, turned
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Consequences
Is Your Church Mourning Your Sexual Sin? | 1 Corinthians 5:1

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by Alan Sharpe February 22, 2022

Would your church kick you out if it discovered your sexual sin? Why not assume that they would? Then act accordingly.

by Alan Sharpe February 22, 2022

“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.”
1 Corinthians 5:1

If your sexual sin became known to the members of your church, what would happen? Would you be mortified? Probably. Would the congregation be scandalized? Maybe. But would your church do anything about your sin? Probably not.

We live in the age of Christian liberty, where brothers and sisters are reluctant to expose the sins of others in their fellowship. We live, in short, in the Corinthian Age. The church in Corinth had a man in their fellowship who was having sex with his step-mother. This sin was so wicked that even unbelievers viewed it with abhorrence. Gentiles never ap
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Obedience
In Your War with Lust, Never Carry a White Flag | 1 Peter 2:11

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by Alan Sharpe January 31, 2022

If your fleshly lusts war against your soul, then that means you are in a battle. And your only job in this battle is to never, ever, surrender.

by Alan Sharpe January 31, 2022

“Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.” 1 Peter 2:11

If your fleshly lusts war against your soul, as Peter says they do, then that means you are in a battle. And if you are in a battle, then that means you have an enemy. But your enemy isn’t without. It’s within.

In your war against pornography and masturbation, you are at war with yourself, with your fleshly lusts. That is, you are engaged in a daily conflict with inordinate bodily, animal, unregenerate desires. These lusts come in the form of sexual fantasies, sexual temptations, sexual urges. They attack you when you are watching pornography, when you are lying in bed, even when you are sitting in church.

Your job as a soldier in this war is to never surrender to these fleshly lusts. You are commanded to abstain from them. You are to keep away from them as an alcoholic sta
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Prevention
Want to Conquer Lust? Learn to Walk. | Galatians 5:16

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by Alan Sharpe December 3, 2021

When you walk alone, you go astray. You get lost. You stumble into sin. But when you walk in the Spirit, you do not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

by Alan Sharpe December 3, 2021

I heard of a Christian man who was well into his 80s. A much younger brother asked him, “At what age does a man’s sexual desires diminish? When can I expect my sexual urges to disappear?” The older brother looked at him with a puzzled smile. “I don’t know,” he replied. “You will have to ask someone who is older than I am.”

If you are a Christian man, you cannot hope that your sexual lust is going to vanish with age. You cannot expect that it will atrophy without you doing something. To defeat lust, you must take the initiative. And that initiative is described for you in the New Testament book of Galatians:

“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
Galatians 5:16

Walk. In. The. Spirit. Four simple words that promise a lifetime of freedom from falling to the lust of the flesh. Paul is not talking here simply about conquering lustful thoughts or desires. He is talking about
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