12 Bible Verses about Human Desires

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

And his soul will cleave to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he will love the maiden, and he will speak to the heart of the maiden. And Shechem will say to Hamor his father, saying, Take to me this maid for a wife. And Jacob heard that he defiled Dinah his daughter: and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob was silent till their coming.read more.
And Hamor the father of Shechem will go forth to Jacob to speak to him. And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they having heard: and the men will be grieved, and it will be kindled to them exceedingly because he did folly in Israel, to lie with Jacob's daughter; and thus it shall not be done. And Hamor will speak with them, saying, The soul of Shechem my son, was attached with his soul to your daughter; now give her to him for a wife.

And he shall not multiply to him wives, and his heart shall not turn away: and silver and gold he shall not greatly multiply to himself.

If my heart was seduced by woman, and I laid wait at the door of my neighbor;

But I say to you, That every one seeing a woman, to eagerly desire her, has already committed adultery with her, in his heart.

And it was to you for fringes, and ye saw it, and ye remembered all the commands of Jehovah, and ye did them; and ye shall not seek after your heart, and after your eyes, which ye committed fornication after them.

O Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaak, and Israel, our fathers, watch this forever to the formation of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare for their heart to thee:

Which I shall see for myself, and mine eyes beheld, and not a stranger: my reins were finished in my bosom.

But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

My days passed away, my purposes were broken; the possessions of my heart

Ye shall not trust in oppression, ye shall not become vain in plunder: if wealth shall increase ye shall not set the heart

And ye, seek ye not what ye eat, or what ye drink, and keep not in anxiety.