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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
  Isaiah 55:11Word of Godspeakingreliability
• What is desired in a man is steadfast love,
  and a poor man is better than a liar.
  Proverbs 19:22reliabilitymoneygoodness
• For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
  Galatians 5:17obedienceSpirit
• But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  Galatians 5:16sinSpiritdesires
• 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