40 Bible Verses about Positive Thinking

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

even as it is right for me to think this in behalf of you all; because ye have me in your heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, all of you being partakers with me of the grace.

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

If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you, that they are the Lord's commandment;

wishing to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ's.

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

Tell me, ye who are wishing to be under law, do ye not hear the law?

Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus;

and those members which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

Of these things put them in remembrance, solemnly charging them before God, that they engage not in word-battles to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

according as He chose us in Him before the founding of a world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love;

and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

That which has been born of the flesh is flesh: and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to 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 wills to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from Myself.

For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunken are drunken at night.

Ye, therefore, shall be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect."

"Handle not, taste not, touch not,"

for neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through revelation of Jesus Christ.

But he who has been standing steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has authority respecting his own will, and has determined this in his own heart, that he will keep his own virgin daughter, will do well.

Were you called, being a slave? care not for it; but, even if you can become free, use it rather.

Where, then, is your benedictions for me? For I bear you witness that, if possible, plucking out your eyes, ye would have given them to me!

(for, when gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; persevering in prayer;

"The lamp of the body is the eye. If, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be full of light;

But him that is weak in the faith receive ye, yet not for decisions of scruples.

with all humility and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

This saying, therefore, went forth among the brethren, that that disciple should not die; yet Jesus did not say to him, that he should not die, but, "If I wish him to remain till I come, what is it to you?"

to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ), that I might gain those without law.

Or, do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading you to repentance?

If, therefore, ye were raised up with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes on Me, though he die, yet shall he live;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

and to make it your aim to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you;

But, if while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is, then, Christ a minister of sin? It could not be!

These things I wrote to you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life.

I can of Myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous; because I seek not My Own will, but the will of Him Who sent Me.