35 Bible Verses about imagination

casting down imaginations, and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought captive into the obedience of the Christ,

And LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do.

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Now to him who is able to do above extraordinary--above all things that we ask or think--according to the power that works in us,

But they say, It is in vain. For we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart to thee.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own imagination.

They say continually to those who despise me, LORD has said, Ye shall have peace. And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.

Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.

Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

Thus says LORD of hosts: Hearken not to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of LORD.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.

Thou will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee], because he trusts in thee.

He did a mighty work by his arm. He scattered the proud in the mentality of their heart.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture comes to pass of a personal interpretation.

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say thou to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word of LORD.

For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou say, but thou imagine them out of thine own heart.

I have spread out my hands all the day to a {disobedient and (LXX/NT)} rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, according to their own thoughts,

Thus says lord LORD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

And ye have done evil more than your fathers, for, behold, ye walk each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not to me.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD.

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind, for LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be