'Desires' in the Bible

but the worries of life, the deceitful pleasures of wealth, and the desires for other things come in and choke the word so that it can't produce a crop.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.

But sin seized the opportunity provided by this commandment and produced in me all kinds of sinful desires, since apart from the Law, sin is dead.

Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires.

because such people are not serving the Messiah our Lord, but their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh.

Now those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old nature, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,

This is a trustworthy saying: The one who would an elder be, a noble task desires he.

But do not include younger widows on your list. For whenever their natural desires cause them to lose their devotion to the Messiah, they want to remarry.

But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

For some of these men go into homes and deceive foolish women who are burdened with sins and swayed by all kinds of desires.

For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people's own desires.

For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.

For you spent enough time in the past doing what the gentiles like to do, living in sensuality, sinful desires, drunkenness, wild celebrations, drinking parties, and detestable idolatry.

Be shepherds of God's flock that is among you, watching over it, not because you must but because you want to, and not greedily but eagerly, as God desires.

Through these he has given us his precious and wonderful promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, seeing that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world caused by evil desires.

First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us

And the world and its desires are fading away, but the person who does God's will remains forever.

These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. They say arrogant things and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.

They kept telling you, "In the last times there will be mockers, following their own ungodly desires."