Bible Verses about 'Wants'

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• And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”
  Mark 9:35humilityJesusunderstanding
• Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave.
  Matthew 20:26-27humilityservingneighbor
• Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  James 4:4sinGodfriendship
• Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
  2 Timothy 3:12lifepersecutionJesus
• When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”
  Mark 8:34salvationJesusfollowing
• For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
  Mark 8:35evangelismsalvationlife
• Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”
  Luke 9:23obediencecrucifixion
• Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
  John 6:29faithGodJesus
• For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
  Luke 9:24sacrificelife
• But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.
  John 3:21lighttruthobedience
• For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
  Matthew 16:25salvationdeathlife
• If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.
  John 12:26servingfollowingFather
• For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it?
  Luke 14:28debtplanningmoney
• For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
  Galatians 5:17obedienceSpirit
• But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
  Hebrews 11:6faithjoyreward
• The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
  2 Peter 3:9salvationpatienceconversion
• Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
  Romans 8:26speakingSpiritprayer
• For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
  2 Corinthians 7:10worryingsadnessrepentance