What Does the Bible Say About Mindfulness?

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 60 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 56 helpful votes

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.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 34 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

John 14:27 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 23 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Nehemiah 9:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes

They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

1 Corinthians 2:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Luke 12:35 ESV / 15 helpful votes

“Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Mark 13:35 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—

Matthew 23:12-39 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred? ...

Psalm 8:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

1 Kings 2:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Matthew 24:42 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. ...

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Psalm 39:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

John 16:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Mark 14:37 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?

Mark 14:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.”

Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Matthew 26:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”

Matthew 10:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 7:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’

Genesis 20:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife.”

Genesis 31:49 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Mizpah, for he said, “The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another's sight.

Romans 14:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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.

Mark 13:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.

Matthew 26:40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Hebrews 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

Galatians 3:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”

Exodus 18:17-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Moses' father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God, and you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do. Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. ...

Hebrews 7:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness

Jeremiah 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

Leviticus 20:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech. ...

52 Bible Verses about Mindfulness

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 60 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:27 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nehemiah 9:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 12:35 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 13:35 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:12-39 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 8:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 2:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:42 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:3-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 39:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 14:37 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 14:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 26:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 20:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 31:49 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 13:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 26:40 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 18:17-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 7:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 20:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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