49 Bible Verses about Positive Thinking
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each of you not looking out for {your own interests}, but also each of you [for] {the interests} of others.
just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, [since] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me.
Finally, brothers, whatever [things] are true, whatever [things are] honorable, whatever [things are] right, whatever [things are] pure, whatever [things are] pleasing, whatever [things are] commendable, if [there is] any excellence of character and if anything praiseworthy, think about these [things].
If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, he should recognize that [the things] which I am writing to you are of the Lord.
wanting to be teachers of the law, [although they] do not understand either [the things] which they are saying or [the things] concerning which they are speaking confidently.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.
teach me yourself {what I cannot see}; if I have done wrong, I will not repeat [it]'?
Tell me, [you] who are wanting to be under the law, do you not understand the law?
An abomination of Yahweh [are] all who are arrogant of heart; {rest assured}, he will not go unpunished.
Think this in yourselves which [was] also in Christ Jesus,
and [the parts] of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable [parts] come to have more abundant presentability,
And to me, how precious are your thoughts, O God; how vast is their sum.
Remind [people] of these [things], solemnly urging [them] before the Lord not to dispute about words. [This is] in no way beneficial [and leads to] the ruin of the hearers.
just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,
"Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy [them] but to fulfill [them].
If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself.
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.
Therefore you be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
"Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,"
So that you will walk on the road of those who are good, and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.
For neither did I 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, not having necessity, but has authority concerning his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.
Were you called [while] a slave? Do not let it be a concern to you. But if indeed you are able to become free, rather make use of [it].
So where [is] your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes [and] given [them] to me!
For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, [although they] do not have the law, are a law to themselves,
rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,
"The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light.
Now receive the one who is weak in faith, [but] not for quarrels about opinions.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,
So this saying went out to the brothers that that disciple would not die. But 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 outside the law [I became] as outside the law ([although I] am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law.
Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
Instead, in the law of Yahweh [is] his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night.
Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light and there [is] no darkness in him at all.
and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
But if [while] seeking to be justified by Christ, [we] ourselves also have been found [to be] sinners, then [is] Christ an agent of sin? May it never be!
These [things] I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life.
I am able to do nothing from myself. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my [own] will, but the will of the one who sent me.
Bible Theasaurus
- Positive (7 instances)