'Thinking' in the Bible

Now when Jesus realized what they were thinking, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and no town or house divided against itself will stand.

Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them, "Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?

But they were startled and terrified, thinking they saw a ghost.

While Peter was still thinking seriously about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Look! Three men are looking for you.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I? Or do I make my plans according to mere human standards so that I would be saying both "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time?

Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.