23 Bible Verses about Thinking Aright
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Now, brothers, practice thinking on what is true, what is honorable, what is right, what is pure, what is lovable, what is high-toned, yes, on everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.
Practice occupying your minds with the things above, not with the things on earth;
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.
And those who were hired first, when they came, supposed that they would receive more, but they too received twenty cents each.
He answered, "Yes." When Jesus reached home -- He got there ahead of Simon -- He asked him, "What do you think about it, Simon? From whom do civil rulers collect duties or taxes, from their own citizens or from aliens?"
"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides, and go and search for the one that is lost?
"But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons, He came to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in my vineyard today.'
So give us your opinion on the question: Is it right to pay Caesar the poll-tax, or not?"
"What is your opinion of the Christ? Whose son is He?" They answered Him, "He is David's son."
Do you suppose that I am unable to appeal to my Father and have Him furnish me on the spot one hundred thousand angels?
Do you think that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not so at all, but rather discord.
Then He answered them, "Do you think, because these Galileans suffered like this, that they were worse sinners than all the rest of the Galileans?
I know, and through my union with the Lord Jesus I have a clear conviction, that nothing is unclean in itself; that a thing is unclean only to the person who thinks it unclean.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.
What is my conclusion then? I will certainly pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind in action too. I will certainly sing with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind in action too. For if you give thanks with your spirit only,
But in the public congregation I would rather speak five words with my mind in action, in order to instruct the people too, than ten thousand words in ecstasy.
Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.
So let us all who are mature have this attitude. If you have a different attitude, God will make it clear to you.
Keep on thinking about what I am saying, for the Lord will grant you understanding of it in all its phases.
So then, since Christ has suffered in our physical form, you too must arm yourselves with the same determination. For whoever suffers in his physical form has done with sin,
