24 Bible Verses about Right Desires

And He said to them, "With desire I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

but now, having no longer any place in these regions; and, having a desire for many years to come to you,

But we, brethren, having been bereft of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more exceedingly to see your face, with great desire.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that ye may be established;

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

But, Timothy having just now come to us from you, and having brought us good tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us at all times, longing to see us, as we also to see you??7 for this reason, brethren, we were comforted over you, in all our tribulation and distress, through your faith;

Now Herod, seeing Jesus, rejoiced exceedingly; for he was wishing for a long time to see Him, because he had heard concerning Him; and he was hoping to see some sign wrought by Him.

so, as much as in me is, I am ready to proclaim the Gospel to you also who are in Rome.

For what I accomplish, I know not; for not what I wish, this do I practice; but what I hate, this I do. But, if what I wish not, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

For the good that I wish, I do not; but the evil which I wish not, this I practice.

and, making it my aim so to proclaim the Gospel??ot where Christ was already named??hat I might not build upon another's foundation;

Now I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy; and greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interpret, that the assembly may receive edifying.

For verily, in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from Heaven;

and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation with which he was consoled over you; rehearsing to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the more:

And I give my judgment in this; for this is profitable for you, who, indeed, began before others, a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.

And now complete the doing also; that, as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be the completion out of what ye have;

Yea, and all who wish to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

When, therefore, they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do ye desire that I should release to you? Barabbas or Jesus Who is called Christ?"

And He said to her, "What do you wish?" She says to Him, "Command, that these my two sons may sit, one on Thy right hand, and one on Thy left, in Thy Kingdom."

And, standing still, Jesus called them, and said, "What do you wish that I should do to you?"

And He said to them, "What do you wish that I should do for you?"

And Jesus, answering him, said, "What do you wish that I should do for you?" And the blind man said to Him, "Rabboni, that I may receive my sight."

Then Jesus, answering, said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! be it done to you as you wish." And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Brethren, the desire, indeed, of my heart, and my supplication to God in their behalf, is that they may be saved.