12 Bible Verses about Human Desires

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

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife." Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.read more.
Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him. The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; a which thing ought not to be done. Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.