Struggling with sin

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I'm a 16 year old boy. I struggle with masturbation and other sexual sin. I feel condemned about this. I try to hold off on masturbating, and I can do it on my own for a while, but I always end up slipping up sometime. I never really got into porn to much, but I will occasionally look up pictures of girls, but mostly fantasize. I want to stop but I feel like I can't. My faith has been pretty weak. I need some suggestions of prevention, along with some encouragement. Does anybody know a good verse or passage to reference when lusting? Anybody else struggle the same way? I would love your prayers, support, and advice!
 
I just want to encourage you that there is victory over this. I find it interesting that you posted in testimonies, but I believe God had a purpose for that. This will become your testimony! It's a promise. Seek God above and beyond, abstaining from your sin. The best thing you can do when desire comes, and in between times, is to call out to Jesus. I do not claim to understand fully your struggle as a man. I am not one, but I have struggled with similar temptations, and I can attest that God is faithful to lead us all through our sins no matter what they are. There were three things that greatly helped me. One, I confessed it to a same sex friend. Two, I prayed and paid attention to the whole cycle of this sin. I had to uncover it earlier on before it uncovered me. I had to determine how to recognize it before I was past the point of no return. And eventually I did. I learned what thoughts and feelings came before a decision and an act. At the point if thought and early feeling, you have the strength to cry out and make a good choice. If you fall further into that pit, it becomes harder and harder to get out. Actually, take a look at a diagram of the addictive cycle. Regardless of whether its truly a clinical addiction, our flesh is addicted to sin, so the diagram Amy help you make sense of it all. Third, I learned to avoid the very practical things that led to my sin. For me, there were certain places I had to avoid if I started feeling or thinking down that path.
Above all, brother, choose God. When you fall, rise again. Kelp getting up and walking forward. Forsake shame. Forsake defeat. Look ahead.
 
I have yet to return to a daily routine of studying the bible, but I did find however that, being on this site helps relieve some of sexual urges and tension, and also getting back into my weightlifting routine has helped decrease these urges and thoughts in my head. Please pray for my victory over this struggle and for my desire to get back into God's holy inspired word!
 
Porn's not good, but you know that. Its the picture form of fornication that's talked about in scripture. It sounds like you can get a handle on that and avoid it though, thats a good thing. Bless you.

Sin is not a light word to throw around at leasiure, it deals with specific wrongs to ones self, those around, and society. All of which are clearly laid out in scripture. Masturbation isn't a sin. I believe I referenced Levitacus 15:16 already for you. That's what scripture says about it. If you do it, clean up.

It's not good to make up sins and call acceptable things sin. Calling good evil is quite as bad as calling evil good.

If you want to call something you're doing a sin, prove it. Make it a bible study. If you're going to fear an action is unacceptable to God prove that it is unacceptable. Pornography is unacceptable. We know this. You know to get away from it. If you think you're doing anything else wrong prove it.

It is not good to live in fear of sins which are not sins. There is a point where the liberty in Christ is actual liberty.