Desire (Bible Verses)

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Exodus 20:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.

James 1:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Proverbs 13:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

James 4:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Song of Solomon 6:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 1:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

Song of Solomon 2:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 1:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.

Song of Solomon 2:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Song of Solomon 3:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Song of Solomon 1:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

2 Samuel 11:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

Song of Solomon 1:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

Song of Solomon 5:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Song of Solomon 8:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

Song of Solomon 1:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

Song of Solomon 8:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

Proverbs 21:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

Song of Solomon 5:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Song of Solomon 8:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

Song of Solomon 3:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Song of Solomon 7:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

Song of Solomon 3:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

Song of Solomon 4:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Song of Solomon 2:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

Song of Solomon 5:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

Song of Solomon 5:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

Song of Solomon 1:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

Song of Solomon 4:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

Song of Solomon 2:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Song of Solomon 8:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Song of Solomon 2:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

Song of Solomon 5:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

Song of Solomon 1:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

Song of Solomon 4:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

Song of Solomon 7:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

Song of Solomon 6:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

Song of Solomon 5:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

2 Samuel 13:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

Song of Solomon 5:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

1 Kings 21:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

Song of Solomon 1:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

Song of Solomon 8:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

Song of Solomon 6:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

Song of Solomon 8:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

2 Samuel 13:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.

Ezekiel 23:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Song of Solomon 3:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Song of Solomon 5:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 1:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

2 Samuel 13:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?

Song of Solomon 7:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

Judges 14:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

Song of Solomon 1:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.

Song of Solomon 3:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 5:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

2 Samuel 13:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do anything to her.

Song of Solomon 3:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

Mark 6:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.

Song of Solomon 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

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