10 Bible Verses about God's Desires

Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom.

Thou shalt call and I will answer thee: thou wilt long for the work of thy hands.

For I delighted in mercy and not sacrifice; the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

And having gone, learn what is this, I wish mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.

And if ye knew what it is, I will mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the innocent.

And he goes up to a mountain, and calls whom he would: and they came to him.

O Father, those thou hast given me, I will that where I am these also be with me: that they might behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do.

If I shall hunger I shall not say to thee; for to me the habitable globe, and its fulness.

Sacrifice and a gift thou didst not delight in; the ears thou didst pierce to me: burnt-offering and sin thou didst not ask.