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1 John 2:16–17 NIV

For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

Charles Spurgeon and his grandfather - the evil thoughts that come are not yours, so disperse of them immediately

The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary Lust

“By lusts Paul, like Peter and James, understands, not the natural appetites of the body, but the sinful, godless inclinations (Rom. 1:24), whether these be of a sensuous or of a spiritual nature. He purposely quotes the Old Testament commandment against sinful lust (Ex. 20:17; Deut. 5:21) in such a manner that it is not any definite objects of lust, but the longing for them as such that he calls forbidden (Rom. 7:7, see margin). In his sense every lust is a product of sin (v. 8), which compels us to obey the lusts of the body (6:12); every natural appetite may be perverted by sin into lust (13:14)”

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised Lust

Though contemporary English uses “lust” only in a negative way, the word originally meant “craving, strong desire” and was morally neutral

Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary Lust

Christians are able to resist lust through the power of the Holy Spirit. The flesh, with its passions and lusts, is to be crucified (Gal. 5:24; Titus 2:12).

“I note with great displeasure that the enemy has, for the time being, put a forcible end to your direct attacks on the patient's Chastity. You ought to have known that He always does in the en end, and you ought to have stopped before you reached that stage. For as things are, your man has now discovered the dangerous truth that these attacks don’t last forever; consequently you cannot use again what is, after all, our best weapon - the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting ride of us except by yeilding. I suppose you’ve tired persuaiding him that chastity is unhealthy?”