Bible Verses About Desire for Relationship

Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

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

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

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

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.