Bible Verses About Love and Desire

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

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

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

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.

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.

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

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

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

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.

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

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.

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

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

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

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

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

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

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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.

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

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

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

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

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

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

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

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.