Bible Verses about Desires

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• But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
  Galatians 5:16sinSpirit
• Therefore, treat the parts of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.
  Colossians 3:5sinmaterialismidols
• You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
  James 4:2sinprayer
• The world is passing away and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God continues to live forever.
  1 John 2:17eternal lifeobedienceworld
• Or can a person walk on hot coals
  And his feet not be scorched?
  Proverbs 6:28temptation
• All things are permitted for me, but not all things are of benefit. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.
  1 Corinthians 6:12addictionliferighteousness
• But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.
  1 Corinthians 7:2marriagerelationshipssexuality
• 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 look at a virgin?
  Job 31:1self-controlcovenantthoughts
• Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. 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 lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  1 John 2:16addictionprideworld
• Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  Hebrews 13:4marriagejudgmentsexuality
• For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
  Galatians 5:13freedomhumilityserving
• As the deer pants for the water brooks,
  So my soul pants for You, God.
  Psalm 42:1God
• Keep watching and praying, so that you do not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  Matthew 26:41prayertemptationaddiction
• No temptation has overtaken you except something common to mankind; and God is faithful, so He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
  1 Corinthians 10:13reliabilitytemptationaddiction
• No one is to say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
  James 1:13temptationunderstanding
• Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, Lord,
  We have waited for You eagerly;
  Your name, and remembering You, is the desire of our souls.
  Isaiah 26:8lawrighteousness
• Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust.
  2 Peter 1:4rewardworldpromises
• For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
  1 Timothy 6:10moneyevilgreed
• When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
  For wealth certainly makes itself wings
  Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
  Proverbs 23:5moneymaterialism
• All day long he is craving,
  While the righteous gives and does not hold back.
  Proverbs 21:26greedgivingmaterialism
• What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Far from it! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
  Romans 7:7sinlaw
• Brothers and sisters, even if a person is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual are to restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you are not tempted as well.
  Galatians 6:1sintemptationconversion
• And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  Romans 8:8sindependence