Matthew 5:22 also internalizes the law—anger as murder—showing Jesus' pattern of condemning inner sin as seriously as outward acts.

Genesis 39:7-23 shows Joseph resisting sexual temptation — a counterexample of avoiding the lust Jesus condemns.

Exodus 20:17 forbids coveting a neighbor's wife — the OT law against inner desire that Jesus intensifies here.

James 1:15 shows the progression from desire to sin and death — adding the fatal outcome of the lust Jesus condemns here.

James 1:14 explains that temptation arises from one's own desire — the same internal lust that Jesus says constitutes adultery in the heart.

Romans 7:8 shows how the command against coveting can provoke sin — revealing the same human tendency Jesus addresses when he prohibits lust.

2 Samuel 11:2 shows David's lustful look leading to adultery — a vivid example of the heart-sin Jesus condemns.

Job 31:1 describes a covenant to avoid lustful looks — a righteous practice that aligns with Jesus' command against lust.

Romans 7:7 cites the command 'You shall not covet' — the OT law that Jesus intensifies to include lustful looks as inward coveting.

Proverbs 6:25 warns against desiring beauty in the heart — a parallel OT wisdom that echoes Jesus' teaching on lust as inner adultery.

1 John 3:15 equates hatred with murder, mirroring how 5:28 equates lust with adultery — inner sin is as serious as the act.

Genesis 3:6 records Eve seeing the tree as 'a delight to the eyes' — the first instance of desire leading to sin, prefiguring the lust Jesus warns against.

Ezekiel 23:16 uses the word 'lusted' after seeing, mirroring Jesus' concept of lustful looking leading to sin.

Jeremiah 5:8 explicitly describes men lusting after neighbors' wives, directly paralleling Jesus' teaching on adultery of the heart.

Psalm 119:37 asks God to turn eyes from worthless things—same principle of guarding the eyes from temptation.

Psalm 101:3 resolves to set no wicked thing before the eyes—a direct parallel to Jesus' command to avoid lustful looks.

Joshua 7:21 shows Achan seeing, coveting, and taking—a vivid parallel to Jesus' link between looking and sinning in the heart.

Deuteronomy 5:18 repeats the Ten Commandments' adultery ban, directly referenced in Jesus' teaching.

Exodus 20:14 is the adultery commandment Jesus cites before intensifying it to include lustful looks.

Proverbs 7:25 warns not to let the heart turn to an adulteress—parallel to Jesus' teaching on heart adultery.

Zechariah 8:17 forbids devising evil in the heart, similar to Jesus' focus on inner sin of lust.

1 John 2:16 lists 'desires of the eyes' as worldly — placing the lust Jesus condemns in the category of worldly, not from the Father.

Ezekiel 18:6 lists not defiling a neighbor's wife as righteous, but focuses on outward act, not inner lust.

Ezekiel 22:11 lists sexual sins including adultery, but Matthew 5:28 internalizes the command.

Leviticus 18:20 forbids adultery with a neighbor's wife, reinforcing the same OT law Jesus expands upon.

2 Peter 2:14 describes false teachers with 'eyes full of adultery' — a specific instance of the lustful looking Jesus warns about.