Quotes about Desires
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
- Romans 13:14
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- Galatians 5:16
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- Galatians 5:24
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- Ephesians 2:3
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
- Ephesians 4:22
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- 1 Timothy 6:9
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
- 2 Timothy 4:3
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- Titus 3:3
for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.
- James 1:20
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
- James 4:1
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
- James 4:3
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- 1 Peter 2:11