35 Bible Verses about imagination

We cast down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

Jehovah said: If they become one people speaking the same language, nothing will be impossible for them. They have begun to do this.

It is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, and it has not entered into the heart of man, the things God prepared for those who love him. (Isaiah 64:4)

for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.

Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

Being then the offspring of God, we should not think that the divine being is like gold, or silver, or stone, a device made by man's design or skill.

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear. They walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

Now to him that is able to do far more abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

But they will answer, It is useless! We will live the way we want to. We will go our own stubborn, evil ways.

Jehovah, God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep such devotion always strong in your people's hearts and keep them always faithful to you.

Therefore I gave them over to their stubborn hearts. They walked in their own counsel.

They have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals as their fathers taught them.

A heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run quickly to badness,

The rich man's wealth is his strong city. It is his high wall of vanity.

They keep saying to those who despise me, Jehovah says: 'Everything will go well for you.' They tell all who live by their own stubborn ways: 'Nothing bad will happen to you.'

Their eyes stand out with fatness, and their heart's imagination run wild.

How great is God! He is beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.

You saw all the evil they did to me and all their designs against me.

This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: Do not listen to what the prophets are saying to you. They fill you with false hope. They speak about visions that they dreamed up. These visions are not from Jehovah.

Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

You will keep the steadfast mind in perfect peace, because he trusts (hopes) in you.

He shows strength with his arm. He scatters the proud in the thoughts of their heart.

Know this first that no prophecy of scripture is for private interpretation.

They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own heart (inspiration): 'Listen to the word of Jehovah!

Even though they scheme and devise evil against you, they will not succeed.

The wicked proudly persecutes the poor people. He will be caught in the schemes that he contrived.

I responded to him, saying: No such things as you say are being done. They are only a fiction you have made up yourself.

All day long I held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations (thoughts),

The Lord Jehovah said: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.

You have done worse than your ancestors. All of you are following your own stubborn, evil ways that keep you from listening (obeying) to me.

My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares Jehovah.

You my son Solomon, learn to know your father's God. Serve Jehovah wholeheartedly and willingly because he searches every heart and understands every thought we have. If you dedicate your life to serving him, he will accept you. On the other hand if you abandon him, he will reject you from then on.