35 Bible Verses about imagination

and all pride that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

And Yahweh said, "Behold, {they are one people with one language}, and {this is only the beginning of what they will do}. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

For [although they] knew God, they did not honor [him] as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil.

Therefore, [because we] are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.

Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in [their own] plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and {they became worse instead of better}.

Now to the one who is able to do beyond all measure more than all that we ask or think, according to the power that is at work in us,

But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this forever as a plan [and] thoughts of the heart of your people, and establish their heart toward you.

So I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart; they walked in their counsels.

but they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, which their ancestors taught them."

a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,

The wealth of the rich [is] {his strong city}, and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.

[They are] continually saying to those who disregard the word of Yahweh, 'Peace it will be to you,' and [to] {each one} who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, 'Calamity will not come upon you.'

Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow [their] heart.

"Look, God [is] exalted, and we do not know [him]; the number of his years is unsearchable.

You have seen all their vengeance, all there plans against me.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "You must not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They [are] deluding you [with] visions of their {mind}, They do not speak from the mouth of Yahweh.

"Look, I know your thoughts and [the] schemes you devise against me.

You will protect a firm inclination [in] peace, [in] peace because he trusts in you.

He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has dispersed the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

recognizing this above all, that every prophecy of scripture does not come about from one's own interpretation,

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

"Son of man, prophesy to the prophets of Israel {who are prophesying}, and you must say to [those who are] prophets out of their own {imagination}, 'Hear the word of Yahweh!'

Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.

In arrogance [the] wicked persecutes [the] poor. Let them be caught in [the] schemes that they devised,

So I sent to him saying, "None of these words you have spoken has happened. You are indeed saying [things] created in your own mind"--

I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people, those who walk after their thoughts [in] the way [that is] not good,

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Alas, for the foolish prophets who [are] going after their [own] spirit, {and they did not see anything}!

And {you have behaved badly} more than your ancestors, and look, you [are] going each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to me.

"For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, and your ways [are] not my ways," {declares} Yahweh.

"And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for Yahweh searches all hearts and understands every plan and [all] thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.