'Thoughts' in the Bible

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

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

"Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

"Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don't curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

"For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

as for you, O king, your thoughts came [into your mind] on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen.

But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

[Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever; don't let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle." He arose and stood.

But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?