Desires

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• Psalms 37:4–5

  Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

• Matthew 6:33

  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

• Proverbs 10:24

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

• Romans 13:13–14

  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

• Psalms 20:4

  Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

• James 1:14–15

  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

• Ephesians 4:22–24

  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

• Isaiah 55:8–9

  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

• 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 55:22

  Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

• 2 Corinthians 5:17

  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

• John 13:15

  For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

• Mark 11:24–25

  Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

• Ecclesiastes 1:1–18

  The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? …

• Psalms 73:25–26

  Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

• James 3:16–5:1

  For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. …

• Leviticus 18:22

  Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.