Bible Verses About Thoughts

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

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;

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

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

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

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.

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

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

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

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

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

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.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

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

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

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?

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

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

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

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

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.