551 verses about Thoughts

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

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

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

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

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

“If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.

For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.

Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

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.

Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”

You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

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

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not 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 hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. desolation and destruction are in their paths.

I have spread out my hands all 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 will come, and will see my glory.

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

They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

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.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know 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.

On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.