Bible Verses About Contemplation

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.

And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.

For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.