'Think' in the Bible

"If you think in your heart, 'These nations [are] more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?'

And you may think in your heart, 'My strength and the might of my hand {acquired this wealth for} me.'

They will come out after us until we draw them away from the city, because they will think, '[They are] fleeing from us {as before}.' So we will flee from them.

Turn back, my daughters! Go, for {I am too old to have a husband}. If I should think there is hope for me, even if I should have a husband [this] night, and even if I should bear sons,

Then Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David, responded and said, "My lord should not think that all the young men, the sons of the king, [are] dead, because only Amnon [is] dead. {Absalom was talking about it}, as it was being determined from the day he raped Tamar his sister.

You think only a word of lips, '[I have] advice and power for the war.' Now, on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me?

But the princes of the {Ammonites} said to Hanun, "{Do you think} because David sent comforters to you [that] David honors your father? Is it not for the purpose of exploring [so as] to overthrow and spy out the land that his servants have come to you?"

Then Mordecai told [them] to reply to Esther: "Do not think that your life will be saved [in] the palace of the king more than all the Jews.

"{Think} now, who has perished [who is] innocent? Or where [are] the upright destroyed?

And when I think of [it], I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

"Do you think this [is] justice when you say, '{I am right} before God'?

Therefore people revered him; he does not regard any {who think that they are wise}."

Lay your hands on it; think about [the] battle--you will not do [it] again!

Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.

what [is] a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?

Within them [they think] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation. They {name} [their] lands by their [own] names.

I think about [the] days from long ago, [the] years of ancient times.

I think about my ways, and turn my feet to your testimonies.

But he does not think this, and his heart does not plan this. For [it is] in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.

And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, "Say, 'thus says Yahweh: "This is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them, the thoughts of your spirit.

And do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham [as] father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

"Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy [them] but to fulfill [them].

"But [when you] pray, do not babble repetitiously like the pagans, for they think that because of their many words they will be heard.

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

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace on the earth! I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

He said, "Yes." And [when he] came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or taxes--from their own sons, or from foreigners?"

What do you think? If {a certain man has} a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go [and] look for the one that wandered away?

"Now what do you think? A man had two sons. [He] approached the first [and] said, 'Son, go work in the vineyard today.'

Therefore tell us what you think. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's."

For this [reason] you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come].

Or do you think that I cannot call upon my Father, and he would put at my disposal at once more than twelve legions of angels?

What do you think?" And they answered [and] said, "{He deserves death}!"

You have heard the blasphemy! What {do you think}?" And they all condemned him {as deserving death}.

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come]."

Do you think that I have come to grant peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

And he answered [and] said to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were sinners worse than all the Galileans, because they suffered these [things]?

Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them--do you think that they were sinners worse than all the people who live in Jerusalem?

You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father! The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope!

So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another [while] standing in the temple [courts], "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"

{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

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.

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for concerning this sect it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere."

But do you think this, O man who passes judgment on those who do such things, and who does the same [things], that you will escape the judgment of God?

Well said! They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand firm because of faith. Do not think arrogant [thoughts], but be afraid.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think {sensibly}, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.

Think the same [thing] toward one another; {do not think arrogantly}, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise {in your own sight}.

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.

But she is happier if she remains thus, according to my opinion--and I think I have the Spirit of God.

and [the parts] of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable [parts] come to have more abundant presentability,

Again I say, do not let anyone think I am foolish. But indeed, if [you do], accept me even as foolish, in order that I also may boast a little.

I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will think nothing different, but the one who is confusing you {will pay the penalty}, whoever he may be.

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,

just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, [since] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me.

Think this in yourselves which [was] also in Christ Jesus,

Therefore as many as [are] perfect, {let us hold this opinion}, and if you think anything differently, God will reveal this also to you.

whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is] the stomach, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, the ones who think on earthly things.

Finally, brothers, whatever [things] are true, whatever [things are] honorable, whatever [things are] right, whatever [things are] pure, whatever [things are] pleasing, whatever [things are] commendable, if [there is] any excellence of character and if anything praiseworthy, think about these [things].

But now, [because] Timothy has come to us from you and has brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that {you always think kindly of us}, desiring to see us just as also we [desire to see] you,

And let us think about {how to stir one another up to love} and good works,

How much worse punishment do you think the person will be considered worthy of who treats with disdain the Son of God and who considers ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy and who insults the Spirit of grace?

Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?