'Think' in the Bible

“Yes,” he said.When he went into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, “What do you think, Simon? Who do earthly kings collect tariffs or taxes from? From their sons or from strangers?”

What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the 99 on the hillside and go and search for the stray?

“But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘My son, go, work in the vineyard today.’

Tell us, therefore, what You think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose Son is He?”“David’s,” they told Him.

Or do you think that I cannot call on My Father, and He will provide Me at once with more than 12 legions of angels?

“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”

Do you think that I came here to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

And He responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they suffered these things?

Or those 18 that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed—do you think they were more sinful than all the people who live in Jerusalem?

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival, will He?”

They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Then as John was completing his life’s work, he said, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the One. But look! Someone is coming after me, and I am not worthy to untie the sandals on His feet.’

But Paul did not think it appropriate to take along this man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them to the work.

Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.

But we would like to hear from you what you think. For concerning this sect, we are aware that it is spoken against everywhere.”

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?

For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.

For by the grace given to me, I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he should think. Instead, think sensibly, as God has distributed a measure of faith to each one.

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

But she is happier if she remains as she is, in my opinion. And I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

And those parts of the body that we think to be less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have a better presentation.

I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are behaving in an unspiritual way.

Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—

It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and establishment of the gospel.

Therefore, all who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.

How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?