12 Bible Verses about Human Desires

For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her. And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife. Now Jacob had word of what Shechem had done to his daughter; but his sons were in the fields with the cattle, and Jacob said nothing till they came.read more.
Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob. Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done. But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?

And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.

If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:

O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;

Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.