'Desire' in the Bible
And he said to the disciples, "Days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see [it].
But if you desire anything further, it will be settled in the lawful assembly.
For I desire to see you, in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to strengthen you,
and likewise also the males, abandoning the natural relations with the female, were inflamed in their desire toward one another, males with males committing the shameless deed, and receiving in themselves the penalty that was necessary for their error.
Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them [is] for [their] salvation.
and now, no longer having a place in these regions, but having a desire for many years to come to you
But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn [with sexual desire].
So then, my brothers, desire to prophesy, and do not prevent speaking with tongues.
For indeed, in this [house] we groan, [because we] desire to put on our dwelling from heaven,
But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh.
But I am hard pressed {between the two options}, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, {for this is very much better}.
Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,
But [when] we were made orphans by separation from you, brothers, for {a short time} (in face, not in heart), [we were] even more eager with great desire to see your face,
But now, [because] Timothy has come to us from you and has brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that {you always think kindly of us}, desiring to see us just as also we [desire to see] you,
for which [purpose] we also pray always for you, that you may be considered worthy of the calling of our God, and he might fulfill every desire for goodness and work of faith with power,
For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, [because they] desire [it], have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.
And we desire each one of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the full assurance of [your] hope until the end,
Then desire, [after it] has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, [when it] is brought to completion, gives birth to death.
You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
to whom it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you with reference to the same [things] which now have been announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, {things into which} angels desire to look.
For the time that has passed [was] sufficient {to do what the Gentiles desire to do}, having lived in licentiousness, [evil] desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries,
through which things he has bestowed on us his precious and very great promises, so that through these you may become sharers of the divine nature [after] escaping from the corruption [that is] in the world because of evil desire,
having eyes full of [desire for] an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, [and] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!
because everything [that is] in the world--the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of material possessions--is not from the Father, but is from the world.
And the world is passing away, and its desire, but the one who does the will of God remains {forever}.
as Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns around them indulged in sexual immorality and {pursued unnatural desire} [in] the same way as these, are exhibited as an example [by] undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.