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Bible Verses About Negative Thoughts
Find Bible verses about negative thoughts — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about negative thoughts?
The Bible addresses negative thoughts with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Isaiah 55:8
“"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.”
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Proverbs 15:26
“Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.”
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Psalms 139:17
“How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!”
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Jeremiah 29:11
“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.”
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Matthew 12:25
“Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.”
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Psalms 92:5
“How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.”
1 Corinthians 14:20
“Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.”
Matthew 15:19
“For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.”
Psalms 139:2
“You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.”
Psalms 33:11
“The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.”
Micah 4:12
“But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.”
Psalms 94:11
“Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.”
Psalms 40:5
“Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than c...”
Proverbs 12:5
“The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.”
James 2:4
“haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?”
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Psalms 10:4 — “The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God....”
Jeremiah 4:14 — “Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts...”
Matthew 9:4 — “Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?...”
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