The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
She [is] more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
The desire of the righteous [is] only good: [but] the expectation of the wicked [is] wrath.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but [it is] abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom.
The desire of a man [is] his kindness: and a poor man [is] better than a liar.
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go [and] to sojourn.
So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
Also, thou son of man, [shall it] not [be] in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise [men] of Babylon.
Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
[It is] in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, [the same] shall be last of all, and servant of all.
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them].
And the multitude crying aloud began to desire [him to do] as he had ever done unto them.
And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see [it].
Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would inquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
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.
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but [now] I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or [that] he heareth of me.
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
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.
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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