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(page 7) Bible Verses About Desire
414 Scriptures on Desire

Psalms 119:123

My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

Psalms 119:131

My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

Psalms 119:174

All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

Psalms 119:20

My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.

Psalms 119:36

Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

Psalms 119:40

See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.

Psalms 119:81

<CAPH> My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.

Psalms 119:94

I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.

Psalms 132:14

This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.

Psalms 140:8

O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)

Psalms 145:16

By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.

Psalms 145:19

To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.

Psalms 20:4

May he give you your heart's desire, and put all your purposes into effect.

Psalms 21:2

You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)

Psalms 24:4

He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.

Psalms 27:4

One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

Psalms 34:12

What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

Psalms 38:12

Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

Psalms 38:9

Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

Psalms 40:6

You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

Psalms 42:1

<To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah.> Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

Psalms 45:11

So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

Psalms 50:17

Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

Psalms 51:16

You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

Psalms 51:6

Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

Psalms 53:5

They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

Psalms 57:3

He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

Psalms 59:10

The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.

Psalms 63:1

<A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

Psalms 63:9

But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

Psalms 73:25

Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.

Psalms 73:7

Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

Psalms 78:18

Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

Psalms 78:29

So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

Psalms 84:2

The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

Revelation 11:5

And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death.

Revelation 18:11

And the traders of the earth are weeping and crying over her, because no man has any more desire for their goods,

Revelation 18:14

And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.

Revelation 4:11

It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.

Revelation 9:6

And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.

Romans 10:1

Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.

Romans 10:2

For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

Romans 1:11

For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

Romans 11:25

For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;

Romans 1:15

For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.

Romans 1:27

And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

Romans 1:29

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

Romans 13:9

And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

Romans 15:23

But now, having no longer any place in these parts and having had for a number of years a great desire to come to you,

Romans 16:1

It is my desire to say a good word for Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae:


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