85 Bible Verses about Thought

For not my purposes your purposes and not your ways my ways, says Jehovah As the heavens were high above the earth, so my ways were high above your ways, and my purposes above your purposes.

How great were thy works, O Jehovah! thy thoughts were very deep.

And to me how were thy thoughts precious, O God! how were their heads strong! I will count them; they shall be multiplied above the sand of the sea: I awoke, and I am yet with thee.

And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God. For who of men knows the things of men except the spirit of man in him? so also the things of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God.

And thou, O Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing soul: for Jehovah searched all hearts, and he understands every formation of the thoughts: if thou shalt seek him he will be found to thee, and if thou wilt forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

And Jehovah will see that great the evil of man in the earth, and every formation of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the days.

Jehovah knew the thoughts of man that they are vanity.

To the overseer, to David a chanting. O Jehovah thou didst search me, and thou wilt know. Thou knewest my sitting and my rising; thou didst understand for my thoughts from far of Thou didst sift my way and my lying down, and thou knewest all my ways.read more.
For not a word in my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, thou knewest all of it

And Jesus seeing their reflections, said, Why reflect ye within your hearts?

And Jesus knowing their reflections, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is rendered desolate; and a house against a house falls.

And Jesus, having seen the reflection of their heart, having taken up a child, set it by himself,

For the word of God living, and effective, and more piercing than any two-mouthed sword, and penetrating even to the division both of soul and spirit, both the joints and marrows, and a critic of the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing. But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, and in his law he will meditate day and night

And these words which I command thee to do shall be upon thy heart; And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.

And put these words upon your heart and upon your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they were for bands between your eyes.

And the book of this law shall not depart from thy mouth; and meditate thou in it day and night, so that thou shalt watch to do according to all written in it: for then thou shalt prosper thy ways, and then thou shalt be wise.

In thy charges I will meditate, and I will look upon thy ways.

And I meditated in all thy work, and I will think upon all thy doings.

But fear ye Jehovah, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for see what he magnified with you.

Our fathers considered not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; they embittered at the sea, the sea of sedge;

Who the wise and will watch these, and they shall understand the mercies of Jehovah.

Cause me to understand the way of thy charges, and I will meditate in thy wonders.

I remembered the days of old and I meditated in all thy work, and I will meditate upon the work of thy hands.

Generation to generation shall praise thy works, and they shall announce thy powers. I will speak the splendor of the honor of thy majesty, and the words of thy wonders.

Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

For this, behold me adding to be wonderful with this people, dealing wonderfully and being a wonder: and the wisdom of their wise perished, and the understanding of their understanding ones shall be hid.

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed:

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions. And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.

Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom. And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit.

Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others.

And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother.

Which then of these three seems to thee to have been neighbor to him fallen among rubbers.? And he said, He having done mercy with him. Then said Jesus to him, Go thou, and do likewise.

Participating in the necessities of the holy ones; pursuing hospitality.

And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer together; or one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.

If therefore I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him speaking a foreigner, and he speaking a foreigner to me. So also ye, since ye are zealous of spirits, for the building up of the church seek that ye may abound.

Honour widows, truly widows.

And whoever has the life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and should shut up his bowels from him, how remains the love of God in him?

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

And our becoming parts have no need: but God blended the body together, to the wanting having given more abundant honour: That no division be in the body; but the members should care the same for one another.

Therefore, what is it brethren when ye come together, every one of you has a Psalms, has teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretatior. Let all things be for the building of the house. Whether any speak in a tongue, by two, or the most by three, and in part; and let one interpret. And if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.read more.
And let the prophets speak two or three, and let others decide. And if to another sitting by it be revealed, let the first be silent. For ye are all able to prophesy one by one, that all might learn, and all might be encouraged. And the spirits of the prophets are subjected to the prophets. For God is not of unsteadiness, but of peace, as in all the churches of the holy ones.

And we should observe one another for the incitement of love and good works:

Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.

And Peter said to him, May thy silver be for ruin with thee, for thou thoughtest the gift of God to be purchased for money. No portion is to thee, nor lot, in this word: for thy heart is not upright before God.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart; Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.

For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born:

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

Therefore let him seeming to stand see that he fall not.

Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.

For I reckon myself to be nothing greatly inferior to the sent. And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you.

For if any think to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:

For we dare not appear or join ourselves to certain of them recommending themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and joining themselves to themselves, do not understand.

Go to the ant, thou slothful one; see her ways, and be wise:

For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:

Which show the work of the law Written in their hearts, their consciousness testifying together, and between one another thoughts accusing or also excusing;)

When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child.

See ye things according to the face? If any has persuaded himself to be of Christ, let him reckon this again of himself, that, as he of Christ, so we also of Christ.

Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,

And you, once being alienated and enemies in mind by evil works, and now has he reconciled

But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ. But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ, And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:

Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us? For all these the nations seek for; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these. But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.read more.
Therefore should ye not be anxious about the morrow: for the morrow shall be anxious about the things of itself. Sufficient for the day its evil.

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ; As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:

Watch to thyself lest a word shall be with thy heart, of Belial, saying. The seventh year, the year of remission is drawing near; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother and thou wilt not give to him; and he call against thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee.

Lest thou shalt make level the path of life, her tracks wavered; thou wilt not know.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: and the folly of the foolish is deceit

The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive.

And now, thus said Jehovah of armies: Set your hearts upon your ways

Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him?

And he said to them, Men, Israelites, attend to yourselves on account of these men, what ye are about to do.