“.. .for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.” Matthew 5:30
The following study is documentation from Scripture revealing the eternal consequences of lust. Remember that God is no respecter of persons (Romans 2:11). His measuring rod is the same for all men-whether saved or sinner. On the day of judgment, God “will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish…” Romans 2:6-9
If I continue in lust… I will receive God’s vengeance
“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: Because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.” I Thessalonians 4:3-8
I will suffer the vengeance of eternal fire
“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” Jude 7
I will not abide with God forever
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: But he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” I John 2:17
I will be God’s enemy and receive destruction
“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” James 4:4
“(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you, even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)” Philippians 3:19
I will receive death
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.” James 1:15,16
I will be judged by God
“Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” Hebrews 13:4
I will reap corruption instead of life everlasting
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” Galatians 6:7,8
“If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” Romans 8:13
I will suffer the wrath of God
“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence (lusts of any kind), and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.” Col. 3:5,6
I will not inherit the kingdom of God
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind (homosexuals)…shall inherit the kingdom of God.” I Corinthians 6:9,10
“But fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh the saints…For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be ye not therefore partakers of them.” Ephesians 5:3-7
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness (sexual lusts), idolatry…of the which I tell you before, I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21
I will deceive myself and be damned
“Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:19-24
“.. .because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” II Thessalonians 2:10-12