40 Bible Verses about Positive Thinking

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord's command.

wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.

These things are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we treat with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

Remind them of these things, and charge them in the presence of God to avoid disputing about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before him. In love

and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ;

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

If anyone is willing to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

"Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!"

For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has control over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.

Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it trouble youbut if you can gain your freedom, do so.

What has become of the satisfaction you felt? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

When Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be faithful in prayer.

The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.

As for the man who is weak in faith, accept him, but not for disputes over opinions.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

Then the saying spread among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?"

To those who are without law, I became as one without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without the law.

Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,

But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then an agent of sin? Certainly not!

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

"I can do nothing of myself; as I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.