Topic
Wanting
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Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
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. — read the full passage →
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. — read the full passage →
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: — read the full passage →
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. — read the full passage →
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: — read the full passage →
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. — read the full passage →
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →
But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? — read the full passage →
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. — read the full passage →
He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. — read the full passage →
But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
We love him, because he first loved us.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? — read the full passage →
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. — read the full passage →
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. — read the full passage →
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. — read the full passage →
And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. — read the full passage →
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.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: — read the full passage →
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, — read the full passage →
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: KJV.