Bible Verses About Desires

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Nevertheless , to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.