(page 1) Bible Verses About Desire
109 Scriptures on Desire

Bible Verses About Desire

Haggai 2:7

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.

Hebrews 11:16

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.

Hebrews 6:11

And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

Hosea 10:10

[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.

Isaiah 26:8

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.

Isaiah 53:2

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.

James 4:2

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.

Jeremiah 22:27

But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

Jeremiah 42:22

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.

Jeremiah 44:14

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.

Job 13:3

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 14:15

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

Job 21:14

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Job 31:35

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire [is, that] the Almighty would answer me, and [that] mine adversary had written a book.

Job 33:32

If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

Job 34:36

My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men.

Job 36:20

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Judges 8:24

And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.)

Luke 17:22

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].

Luke 20:46

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;

Luke 22:15

And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

Mark 10:35

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.

Mark 11:24

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them].

Mark 15:8

And the multitude crying aloud began to desire [him to do] as he had ever done unto them.

Mark 9:35

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.

Micah 7:3

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.

Nehemiah 1:11

O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Philippians 1:23

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Philippians 4:17

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

Proverbs 10:24

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

Proverbs 11:23

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

Proverbs 13:12

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

Proverbs 13:19

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

Proverbs 18:1

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Proverbs 19:22

The desire of a man [is] his kindness: and a poor man [is] better than a liar.

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

Proverbs 23:6

Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Proverbs 24:1

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Proverbs 3:15

She [is] more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

Psalms 10:17

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

Psalms 10:3

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

Psalms 112:10

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

Psalms 112:8

His heart [is] established, he shall not be afraid, until he see [his desire] upon his enemies.

Psalms 118:7

The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.

Psalms 145:16

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

Psalms 145:19

He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Psalms 21:2

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

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