Quotes about Desires
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
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
— 1 Peter 4:3
Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
— 2 Peter 1:4
Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.
— 2 Peter 2:10