Let it not be so among you: but if anyone has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant;
And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:
Now in the morning when he was coming back to the town, he had a desire for food.
And though they had a desire to take him, they were in fear of the people, because in their eyes he was a prophet.
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.
Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.
And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.
Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.
And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?
And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do.
Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?
For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them.
Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil:
And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.
Though my desire was to keep him with me, to be my servant in the chains of the good news, in your place:
Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.
The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.
The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.
A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.
The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.
He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.
A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.
Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.
The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.
The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.
By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.
And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:
So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.
She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.
Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.
He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.
The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
The Lord is my great helper: I will see my desire against my haters.
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