56 Bible Verses about Thoughts

If I should 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 concerning you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you the end that you wait for.

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

There are many thoughts in the heart of man; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD shall stand.

For my thoughts are not as your thoughts, neither are your ways as my ways, saith the LORD.

Thou hast increased, O LORD my God, thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts regarding us; they are beyond our ability to express, declare, or speak; they cannot be told.

Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up, thou dost understand my thoughts from afar.

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Therefore, how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, exercise yourselves in these things.

O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one has known the things of God, but the Spirit of God.

For the word of God is alive and efficient and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same charity, unanimous, minding the one thing.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts more than your thoughts.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed?

Do not curse the king, not even in thy thought; and do not curse the rich even in the secret place of thy bedchamber; for the birds of the air shall carry the voice, and those who have wings shall tell the matter.

For who has understood the intent of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor?

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why think ye evil in your hearts?

casting down reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ

For the word is not even upon my tongue, and, behold, O LORD, thou dost know it altogether.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

Attend unto me and hear me: I mourn in my complaint and make a noise

Set your sight on things above, not on things on the earth.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Thus hath the Lord GOD said: It shall also come to pass in that day, that words shall rise up in thy heart, and thou shalt conceive an evil thought:

Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou didst think that I was altogether such a one as thyself, but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes.

His spirit shall go forth, he shall return to his earth; in that very day all his thoughts shall perish.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but with doctrine of the Holy Spirit, jointly fitting spiritual things by spiritual means.

Therefore, brethren, saints, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

and be renewed in the spirit of your understanding

And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

As in water face corresponds to face, so the heart of man to man.

Examine me, O LORD and prove me; melt my kidneys and my heart.

The LORD of the hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but the speech of the pure is pure.

I have considered the days from the beginning, the years of the ages.

And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul that ye may experience what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the affliction thereof.

But he turned and said unto Peter, Remove thyself from before me, Satan; thou art an offence unto me, for thou dost not understand that which is of God, but that which is of men.

For who has known the understanding of the Lord? Who has instructed him? But we have the understanding of Christ.

And you, that were in another time alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled you

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.