| Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. | Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. |
| May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! | Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. |
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| Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. | Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. |
| In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul. | Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. |
| Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners. | But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. |
| Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. | Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. |
| 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. | For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. |
| Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. | Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. |
| 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. | Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. |
| O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you. | Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. |
| 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. | Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. |
| 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. | But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. |
| Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation. | As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. |
| If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. | If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. |
| Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will. | Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt. |
| 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. | Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. |
| I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart. | I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. |
| 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. | For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. |
| I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? | I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? |
| What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. | The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. |
| And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. | And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. |
| Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. | As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. |
| 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.” | For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. |
| The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. | The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. |
| You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. | Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. |
