Bible Verses about the Mind
| Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. | Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth. |
| Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. | So then, be careful how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. |
| And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” | And He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ |
| Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good. | One who gets wisdom loves his own soul; One who keeps understanding will find good. |
| For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. | Because in much wisdom there is much grief; and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain. |
| The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. | A prudent person sees evil and hides himself; But the naive proceed, and pay the penalty. |
| Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding. | Blessed is a person who finds wisdom, And one who obtains understanding. |
| Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. | As iron sharpens iron, So one person sharpens another. |
| Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. | Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. |
| Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. | Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. |
| Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. | Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise; When he closes his lips, he is considered prudent. |
| For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. | For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. |
| For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. | For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse. |
| For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. | For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. |
| A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. | A fool rejects his father’s discipline, But he who complies with rebuke is sensible. |
| And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. | And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
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