'Desire' in the Bible

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

Father,I desire those You have given Meto be with Me where I am.Then they will see My glory,which You have given Mebecause You loved Me before the world’s foundation.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation!

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.

But desire the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way.

Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and above all that you may prophesy.

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

Now I am giving an opinion on this because it is profitable for you, who a year ago began not only to do something but also to desire it.

But now finish the task as well, that just as there was eagerness to desire it, so there may also be a completion from what you have.

I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

I am pressured by both. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ—which is far better—

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

And in view of this, we always pray for you that our God will consider you worthy of His calling, and will, by His power, fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith,

But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when they are drawn away from Christ by desire, they want to marry

After He says above, You did not want or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law),

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you. These things have now been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Angels desire to look into these things.

Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

as you wait for and earnestly desire the coming of the day of God. The heavens will be on fire and be dissolved because of it, and the elements will melt with the heat.