Bible Verses about Desires

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• But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  Galatians 5:16sinSpirit
• Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  Colossians 3:5sinmaterialismidols
• You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
  James 4:2sinprayer
• And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
  1 John 2:17eternal lifeobedienceworld
• Or can one walk on hot coals
  and his feet not be scorched?
  Proverbs 6:28temptation
• But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
  1 Corinthians 7:2marriagerelationshipssexuality
• “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
  1 Corinthians 6:12addictionliferighteousness
• For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
  Matthew 6:21materialismmoneyheart
• I have made a covenant with my eyes;
  how then could I gaze at a virgin?
  Job 31:1self-controlcovenantthoughts
• Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
  1 Peter 5:8persecutionovercomingdevil
• For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
  1 John 2:16addictionprideworld
• Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
  Hebrews 13:4marriagejudgmentsexuality
• For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
  Galatians 5:13freedomhumilityserving
• As a deer pants for flowing streams,
  so pants my soul for you, O God.
  Psalm 42:1God
• Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  Matthew 26:41prayertemptationaddiction
• No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
  1 Corinthians 10:13reliabilitytemptationaddiction
• Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
  James 1:13temptationunderstanding
• In the path of your judgments,
  O Lord, we wait for you;
  your name and remembrance
  are the desire of our soul.
  Isaiah 26:8lawrighteousness
• By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
  2 Peter 1:4rewardworldpromises
• For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
  1 Timothy 6:10moneyevilgreed
• When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
  for suddenly it sprouts wings,
  flying like an eagle toward heaven.
  Proverbs 23:5moneymaterialism
• All day long he craves and craves,
  but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
  Proverbs 21:26greedgivingmaterialism
• What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
  Romans 7:7sinlaw
• Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
  Galatians 6:1sintemptationconversion
• Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  Romans 8:8sindependence