Bible Verses about 'Desire'
- Whom have I in heaven but thee?
and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. - Hope deferred maketh the heart sick:
but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. - Grant thee according to thine own heart,
and fulfil all thy counsel. - 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. - Lord, all my desire is before thee;
and my groaning is not hid from thee. - 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.
- 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.
- As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.
- 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.
- The desire of a man is his kindness:
and a poor man is better than a liar. - Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
- Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
- 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.
- Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
- And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
- 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 unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
- I delight to do thy will, O my God:
yea, thy law is within my heart. - 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.
- 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.
- I made a covenant with mine eyes;
why then should I think upon a maid? - So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth:
it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. - For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
- This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
- And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Bible verse of the day
In the multitude of my thoughts within methy comforts delight my soul.