'Thinks' in the Bible

The wisest of her ladies answer; indeed she even thinks to herself,

So Samuel told him everything and did not hide anything from him. Eli responded, “He is the Lord. He will do what He thinks is good.”

But David vowed again, saying “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be worried.’ But truly as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is hardly a step between me and death.”

Be strong, be courageous on behalf of our people and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what he thinks is best."

Be strong, be courageous on behalf of our people and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what he thinks is best."

“But a hollow (empty-headed) man will become intelligent and wise[Only] when the colt of a wild donkey is born as a man.

The one who is at ease holds calamity in contemptand thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.

In all his scheming,the wicked arrogantly thinks:“There is no accountability,since God does not exist.”

His ways prosper at all times;Your judgments [Lord] are on high, out of his sight [so he never thinks about them];As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;For throughout all generations I will not be in adversity [for nothing bad will happen to me].”

He says to himself, “God has [quite] forgotten;He has hidden His face; He will never see my deed.”

He who walks with integrity and strength of character, and works righteousness,And speaks and holds truth in his heart.

I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.

I am afflicted and needy;the Lord thinks of me.You are my helper and my deliverer;my God, do not delay.

The one who comes to visit me speaks lies; in his heart he thinks slanderous things about me and goes around spreading them.

An unthinking person believes everything, but the prudent one thinks before acting.

The mind of the righteous person thinks before answering,but the mouth of the wicked blurts out evil things.

The wicked man puts up a bold appearance, but the upright thinks about what he is doing.

for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.“Eat and drink,” he says to you,but his heart is not with you.

For the wise person thinks carefully when in mourning, but fools focus their thoughts on pleasure.

I saw all of it as the activity of God. Frankly, a human being cannot understand what happens on earth, because however hard a man works to discover it, he will not find out. Despite what he thinks he knows, he will not be able to figure it out.

Whatever your hand finds to do--do [it] with [all] your might; for in Sheol--where you are going--no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.

But this is not what he intends, and this is not what he thinks in his mind; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut down many nations.

They say “To whom would He teach knowledge?And to whom would He explain the message?Those just weaned from milk?Those just taken from the breast?

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: 'I burned half of it in the fire -- yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?'

I will devastate her vines and fig trees.She thinks that these are her wagesthat her lovers have given her.I will turn them into a thicket,and the wild animals will eat them.

For a son thinks his father is a fool, a daughter challenges her mother, and a daughter-in-law her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are his own servants.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who obtains wicked gain for his house [and thinks by so doing]To set his nest on high,That he may be rescued from the hand of evil.

This is the self-assured citythat lives in security,that thinks to herself:I exist, and there is no one else.What a desolation she has become,a place for wild animals to lie down!Everyone who passes by herjeers and shakes his fist.

And they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and {you do not care what anyone thinks}, {because you do not regard the opinion of people}.

And [when they] came, they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and {you do not care what anyone thinks}, {because you do not regard the opinion of people} but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or should we not pay?"

Therefore take care how you listen. For whoever has, more will be given to him; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

I know and have been persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in and of itself, but it is unclean to a person who thinks it is unclean.

But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

But if any man thinks he is acting improperly toward his virgin, if she is past marriageable age, and so it must be, he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.

If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.

So, whoever thinks he stands must be careful not to fall.

and she is never rude; she never thinks just of herself or ever gets annoyed. She never is resentful;

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, he should recognize that what I write to you is the Lord’s command.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is only fooling himself.

although I once also had confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].

If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.