13 Bible Verses about Bad Thoughts

Finally, brothers, keep in mind whatever is true, whatever is worthy, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is attractive, whatever is high-toned, all excellence, all merit.

No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

The good man produces good from the good stored in his heart, and the evil man evil from his evil: for a man's mouth utters what his heart is full of.

for God has not given us a timid spirit but a spirit of power and love and discipline.

Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:

For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow ??scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit.

Everyone is tempted as he is beguiled and allured by his own desire; then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.

Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace.

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.

But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.