'Desires' in the Bible

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If any one desires to follow me, let him renounce self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall find it.

Not so shall it be among you; but whoever desires to be great among you shall be your servant,

and whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant;

but it is not to be so among you. No, whoever desires to be great among you must be your servant;

and whoever desires to be first among you must be the bondservant of all.

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.

But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.

If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry.

Faithful is the saying, "If any one is eager to have the oversight of a Church, he desires a noble work."

You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder; you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end; you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you do not pray;