Bible Verses about 'Desire'

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• Whom have I in heaven but you?
  And there is nothing on earth that I desire other than you.
  Psalm 73:25 trust God heaven
• May he grant you your heart’s desire
  and fulfill all your plans.
  Psalm 20:4 planning blessing heart
• Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
  but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
  Proverbs 13:12 hope life heart
• In the path of your judgments,
  O Lord, we have placed hope;
  your name and your renown
  are the soul’s desire.
  Isaiah 26:8 law righteousness desires
• Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.
  Matthew 9:13 mercy righteousness sacrifice
• 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 for you.
  Philippians 1:23-24 death life
• Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
  Colossians 3:5 sin desires materialism
• O Lord, all my longing is known to you;
  my sighing is not hidden from you.
  Psalm 38:9 temptation worrying sadness
• For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.
  1 John 2:16 desires addiction pride
• Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
  John 17:24 Jesus Father prayer
• Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
  2 Timothy 3:12 life persecution Jesus
• And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God abide forever.
  1 John 2:17 eternal life obedience desires
• Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation.
  1 Peter 2:2 salvation food Word of God
• You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it, so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have because you do not ask.
  James 4:2 sin desires prayer
• If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
  John 15:7 reward Jesus Word of God
• Abba, Father, for you all things are possible; remove this cup from me, yet not what I want but what you want.
  Mark 14:36 easter Father Jesus
• For
  “Those who desire to love life
  and to see good days,
  let them keep their tongues from evil
  and their lips from speaking deceit;
  let them turn away from evil and do good;
  let them seek peace and pursue it.”
  1 Peter 3:10-11 love peace life
• I delight to do your will, O my God;
  your law is within my heart.
  Psalm 40:8 obedience law heart
• But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
  1 Timothy 6:9 money greed materialism
• I have made a covenant with my eyes;
  how, then, could I look upon a virgin?
  Job 31:1 desires self-control covenant
• So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
  it shall not return to me empty,
  but it shall accomplish that which I purpose
  and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
  Isaiah 55:11 Word of God speaking reliability
• What is desirable in a person is loyalty,
  and it is better to be poor than a liar.
  Proverbs 19:22 reliability money goodness
• For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.
  Galatians 5:17 obedience Spirit
• Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  Galatians 5:16 sin Spirit desires
• I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.
  Revelation 3:19 love life punishment
• The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;
  a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
  Psalm 51:17 sacrifice repentance
• You who want to be reckoned as righteous by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
  Galatians 5:4 righteousness grace law
• In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
  Matthew 7:12 law neighbor relationships
• So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
  Mark 11:24 faith prayer receiving
• He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.”
  Mark 9:35 humility Jesus understanding
• For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
  1 Timothy 6:10 money evil greed
• Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust and may become participants of the divine nature.
  2 Peter 1:4 reward desires world
• They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the males, giving up natural intercourse with females, were consumed with their passionate desires for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.
  Romans 1:25-28 idols sexuality desires