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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"The lusts of other things entering in" (Mark 4:19) sounds like it's specifically talking about sexual temptation.
"Lust" in the KJV meant any strong desire, good or bad: here, worldly cravings choking out faith, with no sexual sense implied.
Mark 4:19, in every translation this tool compares.
The Greek epithumia just means strong desire or longing; it isn't inherently sinful or sexual (the same word describes Jesus's own desire to eat the Passover with his disciples). In this parable, the "lusts of other things" are cravings for wealth, pleasure, and worldly cares that crowd out the gospel.
"Lust" in 1611 was a general word for desire or appetite, and only later narrowed almost entirely to sexual desire in everyday English, which is why the phrase reads oddly narrow to modern ears.
