Bible Verses About Romantic Pursuit

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

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

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?