'Thoughts' in the Bible

And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

Then when evils and troubles without number have overtaken them, this song will be a witness to them, for the words of it will be clear in the memories of their children: for I see the thoughts which are moving in their hearts even now, before I have taken them into the land of my oath.

Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

Let your voice be sounded in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.

And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;

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

My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:

For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.

See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;

For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.

I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.

Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.

Let your voice be sounding in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.

Make the way of your orders clear to me; then my thoughts will be ever on your wonders.

You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.

If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.

The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.

For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

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 go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

As for those who keep themselves separate, and make themselves clean in the gardens, going after one in the middle, taking pig's flesh for food, and other disgusting things, such as the mouse: their works and their thoughts will come to an end together, says the Lord.

Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.

But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.

But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.

For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.

So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:

As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come.

As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was at a loss for a time, his thoughts troubling him. The king made answer and said, Belteshazzar, do not be troubled by the dream or by the sense of it. Belteshazzar, answering, said, My lord, may the dream be about your haters, and its sense about those who are against you.

Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.

The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the house of the feast: the queen made answer and said, O King, have life for ever; do not be troubled by your thoughts or let the colour go from your face:

Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.

But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.

And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil?

And having knowledge of their thoughts he said to them, Every kingdom having division in itself is made waste, and every town or house having division in itself will come to destruction.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

(And a sword will go through your heart;) so that the secret thoughts of men may come to light.

But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

But he had knowledge of their thoughts; and he said to the man whose hand was dead, Get up and come into the middle. And he got up and came forward.

But he, having knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom in which there is division is made waste; and a house in which there is division comes to destruction.

Who has said, by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David your servant, Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.

Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.

And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.