35 Bible Verses about imagination

and every high-minded thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to obey Christ.

The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

But as it is written:

What eye did not see and ear did not hear,
and what never entered the human mind—
God prepared this for those who love Him.

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,

Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.

Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the hearts of Your people, and confirm their hearts toward You.

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own plans.

Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed after the Baals as their fathers taught them.”

a heart that plots wicked schemes,
feet eager to run to evil,

A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city;
in his imagination it is like a high wall.

They keep on saying to those who despise Me, ‘The Lord has said: You will have peace.’ They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’”

Their eyes bulge out from fatness;
the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge;
the number of His years cannot be counted.

You see all their malice,
all their plots against me.

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are making you worthless. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the Lord’s mouth.

I know your thoughts very well,
the schemes you would wrong me with.

You will keep the mind that is dependent on You
in perfect peace,
for it is trusting in You.

He has done a mighty deed with His arm;
He has scattered the proud
because of the thoughts of their hearts;

First of all, you should know this: No prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation,

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the Lord!

Though they intend to harm you
and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted;
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

Then I replied to him, “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

I spread out My hands all day long
to a rebellious people
who walk in the wrong path,
following their own thoughts.

This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.

You did more evil than your fathers. Look, each one of you was following the stubbornness of his evil heart, not obeying Me.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not My ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.

“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.