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Lust (Endnotes)

1. Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary (AMG Publishers, Chattanooga, TN, 1992), p. 1057. Close

2. This verse is very confusing to many people. First, “lust” is “excessive, unrestrained desire.” It is not being lustful to notice that a woman is attractive. It is being lustful to “take her to bed in your mind.” People often wonder why looking with lust is equated with the act of adultery itself. The reason is that if a person will commit adultery in his mind but not with his body, it is usually because of a fear of consequences or simply his inability to make it happen. God does not want people to obey Him only because they are afraid of consequences. He “looks on the heart” and wants Christians to get to the point that they obey Him because they have internalized His Word and thereby have pure hearts that do not desire to sin. Close