40 Desires Bible Verses

"Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."

"Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart."

"They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done."

"You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes."

"You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

"‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’"

"And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind."

"As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?"

"Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle."

"What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”"

"Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control."

"Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires."

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."

"All day long he craves for more, but the righteous give without sparing."

"Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts."

"When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone."

"Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral."

"As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God."

"Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."

"You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love."

"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

"But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband."

"The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever."

"Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?"

"So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh."

"You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God."

"Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God."

"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman."

"Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted."