56 Bible Verses about Thoughts

If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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

the LORD--knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep!

For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

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

complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been 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.

But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.

When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.

Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan,

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

"Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme

"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

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

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, 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 the man.

Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

The LORD of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but gracious words are pure.

I consider the days of old, the years long ago.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."

"For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

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 gave up childish ways.