Bible Verses About Imagination

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

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

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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.

They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

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

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

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

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;