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The Bible addresses desires in both positive and negative lights, emphasizing the importance of aligning one's desires with God's will. Positive Desires Desires can be virtuous when they align with God's purposes and lead to righteous living. <a href="/psalms/37-4.htm">Psalm 37:4</a> encourages believers to "Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart" . This verse suggests that when one's delight is in the Lord, their desires will naturally align with His will, resulting in fulfillment and blessing. The Apostle Paul speaks of the desire for spiritual gifts and the pursuit of love in <a href="/1_corinthians/14.htm">1 Corinthians 14:1</a>: "Earnestly pursue love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy" . Here, the desire for spiritual growth and edification of the church is commended. Negative Desires Conversely, the Bible warns against desires that lead to sin and separation from God. <a href="/james/1-14.htm">James 1:14-15</a> explains the progression of sinful desires: "But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death" . This passage highlights the destructive nature of unchecked desires. The Apostle John warns against worldly desires in 1 <a href="/john/2-16.htm">John 2:16</a>: "For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world" . These desires are contrasted with the will of God and are seen as temporary and ultimately unfulfilling. Desires and the Heart The Bible frequently associates desires with the condition of the heart. <a href="/proverbs/4-23.htm">Proverbs 4:23</a> advises, "Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life" . This suggests that the heart's desires can influence one's entire life, underscoring the need for vigilance and alignment with God's truth. <a href="/jeremiah/17-9.htm">Jeremiah 17:9</a> provides a sobering reminder of the heart's potential for deceit: "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" . This verse calls for reliance on God's wisdom and guidance to discern and purify one's desires. Transformation of Desires The transformation of desires is a key aspect of the Christian life. <a href="/romans/12-2.htm">Romans 12:2</a> urges believers, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God" . Through the renewal of the mind, desires can be reshaped to reflect God's will. <a href="/galatians/5-16.htm">Galatians 5:16-17</a> contrasts the desires of the flesh with the desires of the Spirit: "So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh" . Walking by the Spirit enables believers to overcome sinful desires and cultivate those that are pleasing to God. Conclusion While desires are an intrinsic part of human nature, the Bible provides guidance on how to navigate them in a way that honors God. By aligning desires with God's will, believers can experience true fulfillment and spiritual growth.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/1938.htm">1938. epithumetes -- one who desires</a> ... one who desires. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: epithumetes Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-thoo-may-tace') Short Definition: an eager desirer of ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1938.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/2307.htm">2307. thelema -- will</a> ... Neuter Transliteration: thelema Phonetic Spelling: (thel'-ay-mah) Short Definition: will, wish, desire Definition: an act of will, will; plur: wishes, desires. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2307.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/2691.htm">2691. katastreniao -- to become wanton against</a> ... Word Origin from kata and streniao Definition to become wanton against NASB Word Usage feel sensual desires (1), feel sensual desires in disregard of (1). ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2691.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/538.htm">538. apatao -- to deceive</a> ... 538 ("lure into deception") emphasizes the to bring in error (delusion). [This of deception with 538 () is often ( desires, pleasure; cf. A. Deissmann).]. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/538.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/1937.htm">1937. epithumeo -- desire, lust after</a> ... Word Origin from epi and thumos Definition desire, lust after NASB Word Usage covet (2), coveted (1), craved (1), desire (1), desired (2), desires (1), gladly ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1937.htm - 8k<a href="/greek/1939.htm">1939. epithumia -- desire, passionate longing, lust</a> ... Word Origin from epithumeo Definition desire, passionate longing, lust NASB Word Usage coveting (2), desire (4), desires (8), earnestly (1), impulses (1), long ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1939.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/1014.htm">1014. boulomai -- to will</a> ... verb Definition to will NASB Word Usage am (1), desire (2), desires (1), desiring (1), intend (1), intended (3), intending (1), like (1), planned (1), unwilling ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1014.htm - 9k<a href="/greek/5367.htm">5367. philautos -- loving oneself</a> ... 5367 (an adjective, derived from 5384 , "lover" and 846 , "of self") -- properly, a lover of , describing someone preoccupied with their own selfish desires ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5367.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/2237.htm">2237. hedone -- pleasure</a> ... made an . That is, the satiation of bodily desires (lusts) other things. [2237 is the root of the English terms, "," ". Word Origin ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2237.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/2382.htm">2382. thorax -- a breastplate</a> ... 2382 ("breastplate of ") protects the heart and its emotions (desires) as they bear on our decisions (resolutions, sympathies, etc.). ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2382.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/4862.htm">4862. mishalah -- request, petition</a> ... 4861, 4862. mishalah. 4863 . request, petition. Transliteration: mishalah Phonetic Spelling: (mish-aw-law') Short Definition: desires. ... /hebrew/4862.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/5690.htm">5690. agab -- (sensuous) love</a> ... 5689, 5690. agab. 5691 . (sensuous) love. Transliteration: agab Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-gheb) Short Definition: desires. Word Origin ... /hebrew/5690.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3970.htm">3970. maavay -- desire</a> ... 3969, 3970. maavay. 3971 . desire. Transliteration: maavay Phonetic Spelling: (mah-av-ah'ee) Short Definition: desires. Word Origin ... /hebrew/3970.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/183.htm">183. avah -- to incline, desire</a> ... Definition to incline, desire NASB Word Usage been greedy (1), crave (1), craved (1), craves (1), craving (1), desire (8), desired (2), desires (5), desires* (1 ... /hebrew/183.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/185.htm">185. avvah -- desire</a> ... Word Origin from the same as avah Definition desire NASB Word Usage desire (5), desires (1), passion* (1). desire, lust after, pleasure. ... /hebrew/185.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2655.htm">2655. chaphets -- delighting in, having pleasure in</a> ... Word Origin from chaphets Definition delighting in, having pleasure in NASB Word Usage delight (4), desires (1), pleases (1), takes pleasure (1), who delight (1 ... /hebrew/2655.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/7592.htm">7592. shaal -- to ask, inquire</a> ... 1), borrows (1), consult (2), consulting (1), consults (1), dedicated (2), dedicated* (1), demand (1), demanded (1), desired (1), desires (1), earnestly asked ... /hebrew/7592.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/7522.htm">7522. ratson -- goodwill, favor, acceptance, will</a> ... goodwill, favor, acceptance, will NASB Word Usage acceptable (5), acceptance (1), accepted (8), delight (5), desire (2), desired (1), desires (1), earnestly* (1 ... /hebrew/7522.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2654a.htm">2654a. chaphets -- to delight in</a> ... root Definition to delight in NASB Word Usage delight (15), delighted (7), delights (8), desire (9), desired (3), desired* (1), desires (5), favors (1), have ... /hebrew/2654a.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm">1980. halak -- to go, come, walk</a> ... continued (5), continues...along (1), continuing (1), continuing* (1), crawls (1), darting back (1), depart (14), departed (55), departs (1), desires (1), die ... /hebrew/1980.htm - 8k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_j/the_satisfier_of_all_desires.htm">The Satisfier of all Desires</a> ... VOLUME II: PSALMS LI to CXLV THE SATISFIER OF ALL DESIRES. 'Thou openest Thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing ...19. ... /.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/the satisfier of all desires.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_desires_for_pleasures_of.htm">Whether Desires for Pleasures of Touch are the Matter of ...</a> ... OF CONTINENCE (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether desires for pleasures of touch are the matter of continence? Objection 1: It would seem that ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether desires for pleasures of.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_every_man_desires_happiness.htm">Whether Every Man Desires Happiness?</a> ... OF THE ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether every man desires happiness? Objection 1: It would seem that not all desire Happiness. ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether every man desires happiness.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_will_desires_of.htm">Whether the Will Desires of Necessity, Whatever it Desires?</a> ... OF THE WILL (FIVE ARTICLES) Whether the will desires of necessity, whatever it desires? Objection 1: It would seem that the will ... /.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the will desires of.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_will_desires_something.htm">Whether the Will Desires Something of Necessity?</a> ... OF THE WILL (FIVE ARTICLES) Whether the will desires something of necessity? Objection 1: It would seem that the will desires nothing. ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the will desires something.htm<a href="/library/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_xi_that_the_desires.htm">That the Desires of the Heart are to be Examined and Governed</a> ... THE THIRD BOOK. ON INWARD CONSOLATION CHAPTER XI That the desires of the heart are to be examined and governed. "My Son, thou hast ... /.../kempis/imitation of christ/chapter xi that the desires.htm<a href="/library/augustine/the_confessions_of_saint_augustine/chapter_ii_why_is_it.htm">Why is It, that Man Desires to be Made Sad...</a> ... Book III Chapter II Why is it, that man desires to be made sad? ... yet he desires as a spectator to feel sorrow at them, this very sorrow is his pleasure. ... /.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter ii why is it.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_temperance_is_only_about_2.htm">Whether Temperance is Only About Desires and Pleasures of Touch?</a> ... OF TEMPERANCE (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether temperance is only about desires and pleasures of touch? Objection 1: It would seem that ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether temperance is only about 2.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_temperance_is_only_about.htm">Whether Temperance is Only About Desires and Pleasures?</a> ... OF TEMPERANCE (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether temperance is only about desires and pleasures? Objection 1: It would seem that temperance ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether temperance is only about.htm<a href="/library/baker/holy_wisdom_or_directions_for_the_prayer_of_contemplation/certain_amorous_desires_&c.htm">Certain Amorous Desires, &C.</a> ... CERTAIN PATTERNS OF DEVOUT EXERCISES OF IMMEDIATE ACTS AND AFFECTIONS OF THE WILL. CERTAIN AMOROUS DESIRES, &c. TO BE USED ACCORDING ... /.../certain amorous desires &c.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/d/desires.htm">Desires (151 Occurrences)</a> ... Multi-Version Concordance Desires (151 Occurrences). Matthew 5:42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you. (WEB DBY). ... /d/desires.htm - 36k<a href="/topical/w/wishes.htm">Wishes (37 Occurrences)</a> ... (WEY). Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ... /w/wishes.htm - 16k<a href="/topical/w/wants.htm">Wants (49 Occurrences)</a> ... also. (See NAS NIV). Matthew 5:42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you. (See NAS NIV). ... /w/wants.htm - 20k<a href="/topical/e/epicureans.htm">Epicureans (1 Occurrence)</a> ... For happiness consists not so much in the satisfaction of desires, as in the suppression of wants, and in arriving at a state of independence of all ... /e/epicureans.htm - 20k<a href="/topical/m/mortify.htm">Mortify (2 Occurrences)</a> ... 3. (vt) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to ... /m/mortify.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/a/awaken.htm">Awaken (10 Occurrences)</a> ... Song of Songs 2:7 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. ... /a/awaken.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/a/adjure.htm">Adjure (16 Occurrences)</a> ... Song of Songs 2:7 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. ... /a/adjure.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/s/sport.htm">Sport (99 Occurrences)</a> ... praise. (BBE). 2 Peter 2:10 But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready ... /s/sport.htm - 35k<a href="/topical/g/guided.htm">Guided (86 Occurrences)</a> ... James 3:4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. ... /g/guided.htm - 31k<a href="/topical/m/married.htm">Married (152 Occurrences)</a> ... Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property ... /m/married.htm - 35k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/sexual-desires.html">Are sexual desires inherently sinful? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/desires-of-my-heart.html">How can I know if the desires of my heart are from God? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Four-Noble-Truths.html">What are the Four Noble Truths? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Desires (151 Occurrences)<a href="/matthew/5-42.htm">Matthew 5:42</a> Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you. (WEB DBY)<a href="/matthew/11-27.htm">Matthew 11:27</a> All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him. (WEB)<a href="/matthew/15-19.htm">Matthew 15:19</a> For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words: (BBE)<a href="/matthew/16-24.htm">Matthew 16:24</a> Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (WEB WEY DBY)<a href="/matthew/16-25.htm">Matthew 16:25</a> For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. (WEB WEY)<a href="/matthew/20-26.htm">Matthew 20:26</a> It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. (WEB WEY)<a href="/matthew/20-27.htm">Matthew 20:27</a> Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, (WEB WEY)<a href="/matthew/27-43.htm">Matthew 27:43</a> He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said,'I am the Son of God.'" (See RSV)<a href="/mark/4-19.htm">Mark 4:19</a> and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. (YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/mark/7-22.htm">Mark 7:22</a> covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. (WEB YLT)<a href="/mark/8-34.htm">Mark 8:34</a> And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me. (BBE DBY)<a href="/mark/10-43.htm">Mark 10:43</a> but it is not to be so among you. No, whoever desires to be great among you must be your servant; (WEY)<a href="/mark/10-44.htm">Mark 10:44</a> and whoever desires to be first among you must be the bondservant of all. (WEY)<a href="/luke/5-39.htm">Luke 5:39</a> No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says,'The old is better.'" (WEB RSV)<a href="/luke/9-23.htm">Luke 9:23</a> He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. (WEB)<a href="/luke/9-24.htm">Luke 9:24</a> For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it. (WEB WEY)<a href="/luke/10-22.htm">Luke 10:22</a> Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him." (WEB)<a href="/luke/11-43.htm">Luke 11:43</a> A curse is on you, Pharisees! for your desires are for the most important seats in the Synagogues and for words of respect said to you in the market-place. (BBE)<a href="/luke/12-47.htm">Luke 12:47</a> And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows; (BBE)<a href="/john/4-23.htm">John 4:23</a> But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers. (WEY)<a href="/john/5-21.htm">John 5:21</a> For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. (WEB)<a href="/john/7-17.htm">John 7:17</a> If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. (WEB)<a href="/john/8-44.htm">John 8:44</a> You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father. (WEB BBE YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/acts/15-20.htm">Acts 15:20</a> But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood. (BBE)<a href="/acts/15-29.htm">Acts 15:29</a> To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy. (BBE)<a href="/acts/21-25.htm">Acts 21:25</a> But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body. (BBE)<a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24</a> For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another: (BBE YLT NIV)<a href="/romans/2-18.htm">Romans 2:18</a> And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law, (BBE)<a href="/romans/6-12.htm">Romans 6:12</a> For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires; (BBE YLT NIV)<a href="/romans/8-5.htm">Romans 8:5</a> For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. (See NIV)<a href="/romans/8-26.htm">Romans 8:26</a> And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say; (BBE)<a href="/romans/9-18.htm">Romans 9:18</a> So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. (WEB NAS)<a href="/romans/13-14.htm">Romans 13:14</a> But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires. (BBE YLT RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/5-9.htm">1 Corinthians 5:9</a> In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh; (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/5-11.htm">1 Corinthians 5:11</a> But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9</a> Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/6-13.htm">1 Corinthians 6:13</a> Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/6-18.htm">1 Corinthians 6:18</a> Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-2.htm">1 Corinthians 7:2</a> But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-15.htm">1 Corinthians 7:15</a> But if the one who is not a Christian has a desire to go away, let it be so: the brother or the sister in such a position is not forced to do one thing or the other: but it is God's pleasure that we may be at peace with one another. (See RSV)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-36.htm">1 Corinthians 7:36</a> But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry. (WEB WEY)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-37.htm">1 Corinthians 7:37</a> But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/7-39.htm">1 Corinthians 7:39</a> A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord. (WEB)<a href="/1_corinthians/10-8.htm">1 Corinthians 10:8</a> Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/12-11.htm">1 Corinthians 12:11</a> But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires. (WEB)<a href="/1_corinthians/12-31.htm">1 Corinthians 12:31</a> But let your desires be turned to the more important things given by the Spirit. And now I am pointing out to you an even better way. (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/12-21.htm">2 Corinthians 12:21</a> And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way. (BBE)<a href="/galatians/5-16.htm">Galatians 5:16</a> But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh. (BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/galatians/5-17.htm">Galatians 5:17</a> For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do. (BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/galatians/5-23.htm">Galatians 5:23</a> Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law. (BBE)<a href="/galatians/5-24.htm">Galatians 5:24</a> And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires. (BBE YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ephesians/2-3.htm">Ephesians 2:3</a> among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/ephesians/3-20.htm">Ephesians 3:20</a> Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us, (BBE)<a href="/ephesians/4-22.htm">Ephesians 4:22</a> ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit, (YLT NIV)<a href="/ephesians/6-18.htm">Ephesians 6:18</a> With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints, (BBE)<a href="/philippians/2-13.htm">Philippians 2:13</a> For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure. (BBE)<a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a> Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods; (BBE NIV)<a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:3</a> For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh; (BBE)<a href="/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5</a> Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God; (BBE)<a href="/1_timothy/1-10.htm">1 Timothy 1:10</a> For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching, (BBE)<a href="/1_timothy/2-4.htm">1 Timothy 2:4</a> who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. (WEB DBY NAS RSV)<a href="/1_timothy/3-1.htm">1 Timothy 3:1</a> This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. (WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_timothy/5-11.htm">1 Timothy 5:11</a> But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married; (See NAS NIV)<a href="/1_timothy/6-9.htm">1 Timothy 6:9</a> But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction. (BBE YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_timothy/2-22.htm">2 Timothy 2:22</a> But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart. (BBE NIV)<a href="/2_timothy/3-6.htm">2 Timothy 3:6</a> For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires, (BBE YLT NIV)<a href="/2_timothy/4-3.htm">2 Timothy 4:3</a> For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them; (BBE YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/titus/2-12.htm">Titus 2:12</a> Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life; (BBE YLT NAS)<a href="/hebrews/13-21.htm">Hebrews 13:21</a> Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it. (BBE)<a href="/james/1-14.htm">James 1:14</a> and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed, (YLT)<a href="/james/1-20.htm">James 1:20</a> for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God. (See NIV)<a href="/james/3-4.htm">James 3:4</a> Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires. (WEB NAS)<a href="/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1</a> What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies? (BBE NIV)<a href="/james/4-2.htm">James 4:2</a> You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder; you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end; you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you do not pray; (WEY)<a href="/james/4-5.htm">James 4:5</a> Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' (See NAS)<a href="/1_peter/1-14.htm">1 Peter 1:14</a> Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge: (BBE YLT NIV)<a href="/1_peter/2-11.htm">1 Peter 2:11</a> My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul; (BBE YLT NIV)<a href="/1_peter/3-10.htm">1 Peter 3:10</a> For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit: (See NAS)<a href="/1_peter/4-2.htm">1 Peter 4:2</a> So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God. (BBE YLT NIV)<a href="/1_peter/4-3.htm">1 Peter 4:3</a> Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images; (BBE YLT)<a href="/2_peter/1-4.htm">2 Peter 1:4</a> And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh. (BBE YLT NIV)<a href="/2_peter/2-10.htm">2 Peter 2:10</a> But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places: (BBE NAS)<a href="/2_peter/2-18.htm">2 Peter 2:18</a> For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error; (BBE YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/2_peter/3-3.htm">2 Peter 3:3</a> Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things, (BBE YLT NIV)<a href="/1_john/2-17.htm">1 John 2:17</a> And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever. (BBE NIV)<a href="/jude/1-7.htm">Jude 1:7</a> Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. (BBE)<a href="/jude/1-16.htm">Jude 1:16</a> These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit; (YLT NIV)<a href="/jude/1-18.htm">Jude 1:18</a> How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things. (BBE YLT NIV)<a href="/revelation/2-14.htm">Revelation 2:14</a> But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh. (BBE)<a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20</a> But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods. (BBE)<a href="/revelation/9-21.htm">Revelation 9:21</a> And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others. (BBE)<a href="/revelation/11-5.htm">Revelation 11:5</a> If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way. (WEB)<a href="/revelation/17-2.htm">Revelation 17:2</a> With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires. (BBE)<a href="/revelation/17-4.htm">Revelation 17:4</a> And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires; (BBE)<a href="/revelation/22-17.htm">Revelation 22:17</a> The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely. (WEB RSV)<a href="/genesis/4-7.htm">Genesis 4:7</a> If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou mayest rule over it.' (See NIV)<a href="/genesis/41-16.htm">Genesis 41:16</a> Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace." (See NIV)<a href="/numbers/9-14.htm">Numbers 9:14</a> "'If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'" (WEB)<a href="/numbers/11-4.htm">Numbers 11:4</a> And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food? (See NAS)<a href="/numbers/11-34.htm">Numbers 11:34</a> So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they put in the earth the bodies of the people who had given way to their desires. 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