Bible Verses about โevil thoughtsโ
The Bible contains 37 verses about evil thoughts across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.โ
โAnd be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.โ
โNo temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.โ
โFinally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.โ
โFlee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.โ
โbut I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.โ
โDon't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.โ
โBut you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.โ
โNot only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;โ
โBut God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.โ
โand perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:โ
โBut I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.โ
โand hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.โ
โTherefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.โ
โDon't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.โ
โBeing therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;โ
โFor until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.โ
โNevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.โ
โthrough whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.โ
โDon't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;โ
โFor while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.โ
โMuch more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.โ
โFor God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.โ
โFor out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.โ
โFor as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.โ
โFor if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.โ
โBut the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.โ
โThe gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.โ
โFor if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.โ
โSo then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.โ
โFor one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.โ
โThe law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;โ
โthat as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.โ
โNot only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.โ
โBeloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.โ
โA prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.โ
โYahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.โ
