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 you.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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

There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

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

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off.

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.

How precious also are your 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, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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

For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged 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.

Fulfill you my joy, that you be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

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

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

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

Curse not the king, no not even in your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?

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

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

Casting down arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.

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

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

Set your affection 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 says the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into your mind, and you shall think an evil thought:

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.

These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.

His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

Therefore, holy brethren, 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 mind;

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

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

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

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my heart and my mind.

The LORD of 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 words of the pure are pleasant words.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Take therefore no thought for tomorrow: for tomorrow shall take thought of the things for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get you behind me, Satan: you are an offense unto me: for you consider not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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

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.