Bible Verses about 'Desire'
- Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you. - May he give you the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed. - Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,
we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts. - But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
- Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. - I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.
- All my longings lie open before you, Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you. - I desire to do your will, my God;
your law is within my heart. - You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
- Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
- In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
- Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
- So is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. - Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
- If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
- For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
- Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
- I made a covenant with my eyes
not to look lustfully at a young woman. - What a person desires is unfailing love;
better to be poor than a liar. - For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
- So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
- Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
- For, “Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
and their lips from deceitful speech.
They must turn from evil and do good;
they must seek peace and pursue it.” - My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise. - You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
- So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
- Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
- For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
- Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
- They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” 
