17 Bible Verses about Imagination, Inward Desires

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

"And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."

Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous-- you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

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

Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.

would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but gracious words are pure.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORDweighs the heart.

But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.