43 Bible Verses about desires

But reject the younger widows; for when they fall into pleasure to the neglect of Christ, they wish to marry,

but I tell you, that every one who looks on a woman to desire her inordinately, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature,

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication, that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor,

For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,

Wherefore God also gave them up with the desires of their hearts to impurity, to disgrace their bodies among themselves,

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things wishing to live well.

But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead.

But if you had known what, I wish for mercy and not a sacrifice, means, you would not have condemned the innocent;

But those who wish to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and many foolish and injurious desires, which plunge men into destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Let no tempted one say, I am tempted by God; for God is not subject to temptation by evils, and he tempts no one. But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his desires, and enticed; then the desire taking effect produces sin, and sin being finished brings forth death.

Go and learn what this means: I wish for mercy and not a sacrifice; for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their inordinate desires,

And if any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and upbraids not, and it shall be given him.

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, performing the wishes of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as others;

Cherish love, and be earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy. For he that speaks with a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in spirit he speaks mysteries; but he that prophesies speaks to men to edification and exhortation and consolation.read more.
He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies an assembly. I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you should prophesy; and he that prophesies is greater than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the assembly may receive edification.

but especially those who walk after the flesh, in corrupt desires, and despise goverment. Presumptuous, self-complacent, they fear not to revile glories,

And you are a body of Christ, and members in particular. And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all powers?read more.
have all gifts of performing cures? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? But desire earnestly the best gifts: and I will still more fully show you the way.

Jesus said to her, Believe me, woman, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, you shall worship the Father. You worship what you know not; we worship what we know; for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father seeks such to worship him.read more.
God is a Spirit, and those that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

Wherefore, coming into the world, he says, A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou prepare me. Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wast not pleased with; then I said, Behold, I come,??n the volume of the book it is written of me,??o do thy will, O God.read more.
Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law, then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all. And every priest stood daily performing service and presenting often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but this [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down on the right hand of God, henceforth waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he has perfected forever the sanctified.

IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires a good work.

And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit; for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace. Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.read more.
And they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his. But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you. Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God.

And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy;read more.
but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.

Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for man's anger performs not God's righteousness.

that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness.

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance, but as he that called you is holy be you also holy in all [your] conduct,

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,

Christ therefore having suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God. For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,read more.
in which they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excessive intemperance, blaspheming, who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the living and dead.

And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.

For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not;

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?