56 Bible Verses about Thoughts
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If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope.
Many are the thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of Jehovah, that doth stand.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak them, they are more than can be numbered.
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;
And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.
But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.
For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.
For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.
Be not therefore careful, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we put on?
Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for the bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which hath wings will tell the matter.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.
And Jesus, seeing their thoughts, said, Why do ye think evil things in your hearts?
overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;
For there is not yet a word on my tongue, but lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
But when they deliver you up, be not careful how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given to you in that hour what ye shall speak.
Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,
have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth;
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall even come to pass in that day that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought;
Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.
which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,
And he said to them, Why are ye troubled? and why are thoughts rising in your hearts?
For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
Jehovah of hosts hath sworn saying, Assuredly as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, it shall stand:
The thoughts of the evil man are an abomination to Jehovah; but pure words are pleasant.
And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Be not careful therefore for the morrow, for the morrow shall be careful about itself. Sufficient to the day is its own evil.
But turning round, he said to Peter, Get away behind me, Satan; thou art an offence to me, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.
From Thematic Bible
Evil » Confess Christ » Thoughts
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;
Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.
They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.
Judgment » Shall be of all » Thoughts
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God.
Thoughts » Evil
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;
Wash thy heart, Jerusalem, from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.
They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.
Thoughts » Wise » Wise
For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.
We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the midst of thy temple.
The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty, only to want.
Thoughts » God's
But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay.
Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak them, they are more than can be numbered.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope.
Wise » Choice, examples of » Thoughts
For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.
We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the midst of thy temple.
The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty, only to want.
Topics on Thoughts
Bad Thoughts
Philippians 4:8For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.
Controlling Your Thoughts
Proverbs 4:23Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
God's Thoughts
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
Suicidal Thoughts
Acts 16:27-28And the jailor being awakened out of his sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword was going to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had fled.
Thoughts Of The Righteous
Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Thoughts Of The Wicked
Proverbs 15:26The thoughts of the evil man are an abomination to Jehovah; but pure words are pleasant.
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