19 Bible Verses about Controlling Your Thoughts

Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.

For walking in the flesh, we war not after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;) Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God. And the peace of God, surpassing all understanding, shall watch your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Thine eyes shall look straight before, and thine eyelashes shall be right before thee.

Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;

In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ;

I cut out a covenant for mine eyes; and why shall I show myself attentive to a virgin?

I will not set a word of Belial before mine eyes: I hated him doing transgressions; he shall not cleave to me.

For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders,

The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure.

As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.

And he said, That going out of a man, that pollutes a man. For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness:

And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.

Fill ye up my joy, that ye may have the same in mind, having the same love, unanimous, being one in mind. Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves. Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others.read more.
For let this be in mind among you, which also in Christ Jesus; Who, being in the form of God, thought not robbery to be equal to God But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men: And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross.

Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth.

For they being according to the flesh mind things of the flesh; and they according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For the thought of the flesh, death; and the thought of the Spirit, life and peace. Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be.

Truly to those an odor of death into death; and to those an odor of life into life. And who sufficient for these things?