Bible Verses about “wanting”
The Bible contains 39 verses about wanting across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”
“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”
“In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."”
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.”
“But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.”
“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”
“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”
“Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.”
“My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
“Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
“Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.”
“Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.”
“He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."”
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”
“From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.”
“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”
“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”
“always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
“For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,”
“But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.”
“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.”
“Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.”
“This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.”
“But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
“But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.”
“But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,”
“persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.”
“I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.”
“Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.”
“And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.”
“The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.”
“May He grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your counsel.”
“What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.”
“Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.”
“You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.”