10 Bible Verses about God's Desires

Indeed, you are pleased with truth in the inner person, and you will teach me wisdom in my innermost parts.

You'll call and I'll answer you; you'll long for your creatures that your hands have made.

For it is love that I seek, and not sacrifice; knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Go and learn what this means: "I want mercy and not sacrifice,' because I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

If you had known what "I want mercy and not sacrifice' means, you would not have condemned the innocent,

Then Jesus went up on a hillside and called to himself those whom he had decided on, and they approached him.

Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.

"If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine along with everything in it.

You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings you have prepared my ears to listen you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.