15 Bible Verses about Thoughts Of The Wicked
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Knowing their thoughts, Jesus exclaimed: "Why do your cherish such wicked thoughts?
Jesus, however, turning round and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter. "Out of my sight, Satan!" he exclaimed. "For you look at things, not as God does, but as man does."
Mighty are the deeds of his arm; He scatters the proud with their own devices,
Take care, then, how you listen. For, to all those who have, more will be given; while, from all those who have nothing, even what they seem to have will be taken away."
They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.
They who follow their earthly nature are earthly-minded, while they who follow the Spirit are spiritually minded.
To be earthly-minded means Death, to be spiritually minded means Life and Peace;
and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these people, in their turn, oppose the Truth. Their minds are corrupted, and, as regards the Faith, they are utterly worthless.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.
For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery,
Because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.
Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.
For they show the demands of the Law written upon their hearts; their consciences corroborating it, while in their thoughts they argue either in self-accusation or, it may be, in self- defense--
Jesus, however, turning to Peter, said: "Out of my way, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you look at things, not as God does, but as man does."