15 Bible Verses about Controlling Your Thoughts
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The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure of his heart brings forth that which is wicked: for out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaks.
For walking in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh; for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty to God unto the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Be solicitous about nothing; but in all prayer and supplication, let your request be made known to God. And the peace of God, that passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who believe not, in order that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine on them.
Therefore having girded up the loins of your minds, being perfectly sober, hope unto the grace which is conferred on you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
For within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, fornications, murders,
The thief does not come, but that he may steal, and slay, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.
Finally, brethren, so many things as are true, so many things as are noble, so many things as are righteous, so many things as are pure, so many things as are lovely, so many things as are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think on these things.
And He said, Everything proceeding out from the man, that defiles the man. For within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, impurity, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly.
and he not fashioned after this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
fill my joy, that you may think the same thing, having the same divine love, being like-minded, thinking this one thing; that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves; looking not each after your own interests, but each after that of others.read more.
Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not usurpation to be equal with God, but he humbled himself, having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men; and having been found in fashion like a man; he humbled himself, being obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
think about those things above, and not things upon the earth.
For those being in harmony with depravity, do mind the things of depravity, and those in harmony with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit: for the mind of depravity is death: and the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be.
unto the latter a savour from death unto death; but unto the former a savour from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
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