positive thinking
What does the Bible say about positive thinking? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.
22A joyful soul makes a lifetime flourish. A gloomy spirit dries out the bones.
6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.
13Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
31Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and outcry and blasphemy be taken away from you, along with all malice. 32And be kind and merciful to one another, forgiving one another, just as God has forgiven you in Christ.
22And all things whatsoever that you shall ask for in prayer: believing, you shall receive.”
11A man is not defiled by what enters into the mouth, but by what proceeds from the mouth. This is what defiles a man.”
2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
1A mild response shatters anger. But a harsh word stirs up fury.
5Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, “I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you.”
27Peace I leave for you; my Peace I give to you. Not in the way that the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, and let it not fear.
6So then, we may confidently say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do to me.”
21Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Whoever values it shall eat from its fruits.
33Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree evil and its fruit evil. For certainly a tree is known by its fruit. 34Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. 35A good man offers good things from a good storehouse. And an evil man offers evil things from an evil storehouse. 36But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment. 37For by your words shall you be justified, and by your words shall you be condemned.”
12in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;