56 Bible Verses about Thoughts

If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Commit your works to the Lord
And your plans will be established.

Many plans are in a man’s heart,
But the counsel of the Lord will stand.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

The Lord knows the thoughts of man,
That they are a mere breath.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.

How great are Your works, O Lord!
Your thoughts are very deep.

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.

When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your consolations delight my soul.

Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’

Furthermore, in your bedchamber do not curse a king, and in your sleeping rooms do not curse a rich man, for a bird of the heavens will carry the sound and the winged creature will make the matter known.

For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, “Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,

Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, You know it all.

But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say.

Give heed to me and answer me;
I am restless in my complaint and am surely distracted,

Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,

“Behold, I know your thoughts,
And the plans by which you would wrong me.

“These things you have done and I kept silence;
You thought that I was just like you;
I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts perish.

which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession;

And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?

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

And He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

As in water face reflects face,
So the heart of man reflects man.

Examine me, O Lord, and try me;
Test my mind and my heart.

The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord,
But pleasant words are pure.

I have considered the days of old,
The years of long ago.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.”

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.