31 Bible Verses about Thinking Aright
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Listen closely, pay attention to the words of the wise,
and apply your mind to my knowledge.
Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise—dwell on these things.
Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.
It is better to go to a house of mourning
than to go to a house of feasting,
since that is the end of all mankind,
and the living should take it to heart.
“Now, reflect back from this day: Before one stone was placed on another in the Lord’s temple,
“Consider carefully from this day forward; from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid; consider it carefully.
“Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
Don’t assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
So when the first ones came, they assumed they would get more, but they also received a denarius each.
“Yes,” he said.
When he went into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, “What do you think, Simon? Who do earthly kings collect tariffs or taxes from? From their sons or from strangers?”
What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the 99 on the hillside and go and search for the stray?
“But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘My son, go, work in the vineyard today.’
Tell us, therefore, what You think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose Son is He?”
“David’s,” they told Him.
Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?
Do you think that I came here to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!
And He responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they suffered these things?
(I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.)
When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put aside childish things.
What then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with my understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with my understanding.
yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than 10,000 words in another language.
Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.
Therefore, all who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.
Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.
Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—
