12 Bible Verses about Human Desires

for where your treasure is, there your heart [your wishes, your desires; that on which your life centers] will be also.

But his soul longed for and clung to Dinah daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke comfortingly to her young heart’s wishes. So Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this young woman as a wife.” Now Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled (violated) Dinah his daughter; but his sons were in the field with his livestock, so Jacob said nothing until they came in. read more.
But Shechem’s father Hamor went to Jacob to talk with him. Now when Jacob’s sons heard of it they came in from the field; they were deeply grieved, and they were very angry, for Shechem had done a disgraceful thing to Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing is not to be done. But Hamor conferred with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem [deeply] longs for your daughter [and sister]. Please give her to him as his wife.

He shall not acquire multiple wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away [from God]; nor [for the same reason] shall he acquire great amounts of silver and gold.

“If my heart has been enticed and I was made a fool by a woman,
Or if I have [covetously] lurked at my neighbor’s door [until his departure],

but I say to you that everyone who [so much as] looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, so that you do not follow after [the desires of] your own heart and eyes, [desires] after which you used to follow and play the prostitute,

O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the minds of Your people, and direct their hearts toward You;

Whom I, even I, will see for myself,
And my eyes will see Him and not another!
My heart faints within me.

but I know you and recognize that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

“My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart;
The wishes of my heart [are broken].

Do not trust in oppression,
And do not vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

So as for you, do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink; nor have an anxious and unsettled mind.