Bible Verses About Desire

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

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

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.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

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

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

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

I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

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

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.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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 the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

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

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

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

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.

I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.

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.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

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

Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

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

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father’s house?

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

The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.