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 towards you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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

There are many devices 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, saith the LORD.

Many, O LORD, my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are toward us, they cannot be reckoned up in order to thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, thou understandest 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 thy thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

The LORD knoweth 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, think on these things.

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

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth 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 ye my joy, that ye 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, thy comforts delight my soul.

Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or, with what shall we be clothed?

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber: for a bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which hath wings will tell the matter.

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

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 imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

For there is not a word on my tongue, but lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given to you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

Attend to 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 saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

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

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

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

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

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Which of you by anxious care can add one cubit to his stature?

And be renewed in the Spirit of your mind;

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

Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious 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 answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

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

The LORD of hosts hath 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 ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

Therefore be not anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be solicitous for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is its own evil.

But he turned, and said to Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan; thou art an offense to me: for thou savorest not the things that are of God, but those that are of men.

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

And you, that were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath 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.