5 Bible Verses about God's Desires

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth to him whom he would, and they came to him.

Father, I will that these also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

For the flesh desireth against the Spirit, but the Spirit desireth against the flesh (these are contrary to each other) that ye may not do the things which ye would.