35 Bible Verses about imagination

and every proud obstacle that is raised against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive in order to obey the Messiah.

The LORD said, "Look! They are one people with the same language for all of them, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. Nothing that they have a mind to do will be impossible for them!

But as it is written, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him."

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

The LORD saw that human evil was growing more and more throughout the earth, with every inclination of people's thoughts becoming only evil on a continuous basis.

So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.

But they didn't listen, nor did they pay attention. They pursued their own plans, stubbornly following their own evil desires. They went backward and not forward.

Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us

But they'll say, "It's useless! We will follow our plans and each of us will pursue his own evil desires.'

LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep your purposes and thoughts constantly in the hearts of your people and direct their hearts toward you,

So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.

Instead, they followed their rebellious hearts and the Baals, as their ancestors taught them."

a heart crafting evil plans, feet running swiftly to wickedness,

The wealth of a rich person is his fortified city; in his own imagination, it is like a high wall.

They keep on saying to those who despise me, "The LORD has said, "You will have peace."' To all who stubbornly follow their own desires they say, "Disaster won't come upon you.'

Their eyes bulge from obesity and the imaginations of their mind cross the border into sin.

"God is truly awesome, beyond what we know; the number of his years is unknowable.

You examined their plans for vengeance, all of their plots against me.

This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Don't listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you; they're giving you false hopes. They declare visions from their own minds they don't come from the LORD!

"Look! I know your thoughts, your plans are going to harm me.

You will keep perfectly peaceful the one whose mind remains focused on you, because he remains in you.

He displayed his mighty power with his arm. He scattered people who were proud in mind and heart.

First of all, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

"Son of Man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who even now are prophesying, and tell those prophets that keep on prophesying according to what they wish would happen, "Listen to what the LORD says.'"

Though they plot evil against you and devise schemes, they will not succeed.

The wicked one arrogantly pursues the afflicted, who are trapped in the schemes he devises.

I sent word back to him, "Nothing has happened as you've claimed. You're making up these charges in your imagination."

I held out my hands all day long to a disobedient people, who walk in a way that isn't good, following their own inclinations

"This is what the Lord GOD says, "How terrible it will be for the false prophets who walk according to their own wrong inclinations and see nothing.

You have done even more evil than your ancestors, and each one of you is stubbornly following his own evil desires, refusing to listen to me.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

"Now as for you, my son Solomon, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with a sound heart and a devoted soul, because the LORD is searching every heart, every plan and thought. He will be found by you, assuming you are seeking him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you forever.