What Does the Bible Say About Vain Imagination?

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

1 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes

If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 14 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

James 3:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— ...

1 Timothy 6:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”

2 Corinthians 10:5-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

Romans 11:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God's reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. ...

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

1 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

John 15:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...

John 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Mark 11:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me.”

Judges 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

John 17:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

Acts 4:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

1 Chronicles 21:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site. And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.

1 Chronicles 21:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 John 2:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 13:48 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

34 Bible Verses about Vain Imagination

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 23 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 14 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

James 3:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Titus 1:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:5-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Romans 11:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 15:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 11:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Judges 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 17:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:1-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 21:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 21:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 15:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 10:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 13:48 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Vain Imagination

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2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 23 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 14 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

James 3:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Titus 1:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:5-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Romans 11:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 15:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 11:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Judges 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 17:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:1-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 21:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 21:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 15:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 12:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 10:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 13:48 ESV / 1 helpful vote