35 Bible Verses about imagination

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

But as it is written, No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has imagined the things which God has prepared for those who love him.

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.

The LORD 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.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

But they did not listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

But they say, 'It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.'"

The LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

They say continually to those who despise me, "The LORD has said, 'You shall have peace'"; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, "No evil shall come on you."

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

"Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

You will keep him in peace, in peace whose thoughts are fixed on you, because he trusts in you.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

"Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, 'Hear the word of the LORD:

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Then I sent to him, saying, "There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart."

I have spread out my hands all the day to a disobedient and obstinate people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing.

and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me:

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

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.