Bible Verses About Thoughts
Bible verses about Thoughts
Discover what the Bible says about thoughts.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts.
Many, O LORD, my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] toward us, they cannot be reckoned up in order to thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.
The thoughts of the wicked [are] an abomination to the LORD: but [the words] of the pure [are] pleasant words.
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The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty only to want.
And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself, is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself, shall not stand.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
(And a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Rise, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose, and stood forth.
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house [divided] against a house falleth.
Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing testimony, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another)
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.
O LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very deep.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.
SAMECH. I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love.
How precious also are thy thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts:
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit.
Commit thy works to the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why think ye evil in your hearts?
But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering, said to them, What reason ye in your hearts?
And he said to them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
And GOD 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.
And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah: even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great thoughts of heart.
O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart to thee:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
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; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.
I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that is] not good, after their own thoughts;
For I [know] their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even] the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened to my words, nor to my law, but have rejected it.
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he shall have executed, and till he shall have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came [into thy mind] upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for [any] wisdom that I have more than any living, but for [their] sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mayest know the thoughts of thy heart.
I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
[Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: [and] the queen spoke and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he will gather them as sheaves into the floor.
For the word of God [is] living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.