Bible Verses about 'Desire'

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• Whom have I in heaven but you?
  And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
  Psalm 73:25trustGodheaven
• May he grant you your heart's desire
  and fulfill all your plans!
  Psalm 20:4planningblessingheart
• Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
  but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
  Proverbs 13:12hopelifeheart
• In the path of your judgments,
  O Lord, we wait for you;
  your name and remembrance
  are the desire of our soul.
  Isaiah 26:8lawrighteousnessdesires
• Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
  Matthew 9:13mercyrighteousnesssacrifice
• Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
  2 Timothy 3:12lifepersecutionJesus
• I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.
  Philippians 1:23-24deathlife
• Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  Colossians 3:5sindesiresmaterialism
• 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 4:2sindesiresprayer
• O Lord, all my longing is before you;
  my sighing is not hidden from you.
  Psalm 38:9temptationworryingsadness
• Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
  John 17:24JesusFatherprayer
• But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
  1 Timothy 6:9moneygreedmaterialism
• Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation.
  1 Peter 2:2salvationfoodWord of God
• If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
  John 15:7rewardJesusWord of God
• Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.
  Mark 14:36easterFatherJesus
• 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 1:4rewarddesiresworld
• I delight to do your will, O my God;
  your law is within my heart.
  Psalm 40:8obediencelawheart
• 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 2:16desiresaddictionpride
• I have made a covenant with my eyes;
  how then could I gaze at a virgin?
  Job 31:1desiresself-controlcovenant
• What is desired in a man is steadfast love,
  and a poor man is better than a liar.
  Proverbs 19:22reliabilitymoneygoodness
• And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
  1 John 2:17eternal lifeobediencedesires
• Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
  Revelation 3:19lovelifepunishment
• For “Whoever desires to love life
  and see good days,
  let him keep his tongue from evil
  and his lips from speaking deceit;
  let him turn away from evil and do good;
  let him seek peace and pursue it.”
  1 Peter 3:10-11lovepeacelife
• The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
  a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
  Psalm 51:17sacrificerepentance
• You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
  Galatians 5:4righteousnessgracelaw