Bible Verses about 'Desire'
- Whom do I have in heaven?
There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you. - May he grant you your heart’s desire,
and fulfill all your counsel. - Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you.
Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. - Lord, all my desire is before you.
My groaning is not hidden from you. - But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
- Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. - Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
- But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
- Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.
- Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
- Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
- If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
- You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
- Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
- For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
- As newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow.
- You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
- I delight to do your will, my God.
Yes, your law is within my heart. - For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
- But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
- I made a covenant with my eyes;
how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? - So is my word that goes out of my mouth:
it will not return to me void,
but it will accomplish that which I please,
and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. - That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness.
A poor man is better than a liar. - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
- The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
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In the multitude of my thoughts within me,your comforts delight my soul.