Use these Bible verses for renewing your mind to show you how to interpret your life through the lens of God’s Word and the Holy Spirit.
As Christians, we have received a heart transformation from God. He has made us a new creation, yet we still wage war against our flesh, temptations, and the old ways of thinking that we have adopted or learned from the world.
That is one of the reasons it is important for us to continue faithfully studying God’s word, and allowing it to renew our minds, and rid us of the old self, and its ways.
These Bible verses can be used alongside prayer, to help you renew your mind, and set your thoughts on the things above rather than the things of this passing world.
It can be so hard to recognize the lies we so easily believe because they are so common in the culture we live in today. That’s why knowing what the Truth of what God’s Word says is so important.
It’s unchanging. It’s solid. It’s anchoring when the world’s definitions of everything are constantly changing.
Taking thoughts captive and making them obedient to Christ is an important part of renewing your mind, so don’t miss this post on the 5 steps to taking your thoughts captive.
Read these Bible verses for renewing your mind to root yourself in Scripture and anchor your thoughts in God’s Truth.
26 Bible Verses for Renewing Your Mind
1. Romans 12:1-2 – Be Transformed by the Renewal of Your Mind
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God — this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.
2. Ephesians 4:22-24 – Be Made New In the Attitude of Your Minds
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
3. Colossians 3:2 – Set Your Mind On Things Above
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
4. 2 Corinthians 5:17 – If Anyone Is In Christ, He Is a New Creation
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
5. Matthew 6:33 – Seek First His Kingdom and Righteousness
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
6. Proverbs 3:4-5 – Trust in the Lord, Do Not Lean On Your Own Understanding
Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
7. Philippians 4:8 – Think About Such Things
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.
8. Joshua 1:8 – Meditate On It Day and Night
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
9. James 1:2-4 – Count It All Joy
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
10. Philippians 3:20-21 – He Will Transform Our Lowly Bodies
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
11. Psalm 1:1-2 – Meditate On His Law Day and Night
Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night
12. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 – Inwardly We Are Being Renewed Day by Day
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
13. 1 Peter 2:9 – He Called You Out of Darkness Into His Wonderful Light
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
14. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 – Taking Captive Every Thought
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
15. Titus 3:5 – Renewal By the Holy Spirit
He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
16. Colossians 3:16 – Let The Message of Christ Dwell Among You Richly
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
17. 1 Peter 1:13-16 – Minds That Are Alert and Fully Sober
Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
18. Psalm 51:10 – Renew A Steadfast Spirit Within Me
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
19. John 17:17 – Sanctify Them By The Truth
Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
20. Isaiah 40:31 – Those Who Hope In the Lord Will Renew Their Strength
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
21. Romans 8:6 – The Mind Governed By the Spirit is Life and Peace
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
22. 1 Corinthians 2:16 – We Have The Mind of Christ
“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
23. Romans 7:18-25 – A Slave to God’s Law
For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do — this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
24. Ephesians 4:17 – Don’t Live As Gentiles In the Futility of Their Thinking
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
25. 1 Peter 5:8-9 – Be Alert and Sober Minded
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
26. 1 Timothy 6:6-10 – Godliness with Contentment is Great Gain
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
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