49 Bible Verses about Positive Thinking

Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.

So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.

Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.

If any man seems to himself to be a prophet or to have the Spirit, let him take note of the things which I am writing to you, as being the word of the Lord.

Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

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For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?

Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

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

Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect;

How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.

If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.

Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin.

If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.

Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.

For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.

Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;

So this saying went about among the brothers that this disciple would not undergo death: Jesus, however, did not say that he would not undergo death, but, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you?

To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:

Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.