35 Bible Verses about imagination

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

And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

"But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.

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

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,

A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.

They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, 'It shall be well with you'; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, 'No disaster shall come upon you.'"

Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.

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

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

Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.

"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;

knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

"Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: 'Hear the word of the LORD!'

Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

Then I sent to him, saying, "No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind."

I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

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

and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.

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

"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.