40 Bible Verses about Positive Thinking

looking each of you not to his own interest, but each to the interest of others also.

even as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, all of you being sharers of the grace bestowed on me.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

If any one thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him know surely that the directions I am writing to you are the Lords;

desiring to be teachers of the Law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is Christs.

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

Tell me, ye that desire to be under the Law, do ye not hear the Law?

Yea, let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,

and what we think to be less honorable parts of the body, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our unseemly parts have more abundant seemliness;

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord not to carry on a strife of words, to no useful purpose, but rather to the subverting of the hearers.

according as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him;

and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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

so that ye may approve the things that are most excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence against the day of Christ,

Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.

If any one is desirous to do his will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God, or whether I speak from myself.

For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night;

Be ye therefore perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Handle not, Taste not, Touch not,

for I did not receive it from man nor was I taught it by any man, but it was revealed to me by Jesus Christ.

But if any one is settled in his purpose, and is under no necessity, but is free to act as he will, and hath determined in his heart to keep his own virgin daughter [unmarried], he doeth well.

Wast thou called being a slave, care not for it; but even if thou canst be made free, use it rather.

How great then was your boasting of happiness! for I bear you witness, that if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes, and have given them to me.

for when the gentiles, who have no law, do by nature what is required by the Law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; persevere in prayer.

The eye is the lamp of the body. If thine eye he clear, thy whole body will be in light;

Him that is weak in his faith receive with kindness, and not to pass judgment on his thoughts.

with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering; bearing with one another in love,

This report therefore went abroad among the brethren, that this disciple was not to die. And yet Jesus did not say to him, He will not die; but, If it be my will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee?

to those without the Law, as without the Law, being not without a law before God, but under the law of Christ, that I might gain those without the Law;

Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God.

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he have died, will live;

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

And this is the message which we have heard from him, and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

But while seeking to be accepted as righteous in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Far be it!

These things have I written to you, that ye may know that ye who believe in the name of the Son of God have everlasting life.

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