Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Intention’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Intention’ occurs 37 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 29:31 And now Hezekiah also added: “You have filled your hands for the Lord. Draw near, and offer victims and praises in the house of the Lord.” Therefore, the entire multitude offered victims and praises and holocausts, with devout intention.2 Chronicles 29:31
Number of the word / term Intention in 2 Chronicles: 1
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Job
Job 15:8 Have you heard the intentions of God, and will his wisdom be inferior to you?Job 15:8
Job 23:13 For he is alone, and no one is able to disturb his intention; and whatever his spirit wills, that he accomplishes.Job 23:13
Number of the word / term Intention in Job: 2
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 5:10 Their throat is an open sepulcher. They have acted deceitfully with their tongues. Judge them, O God. Let them fall by their own intentions: according to the multitude of their impiety, expel them. For they have provoked you, O Lord.Psalm 5:10
Psalm 56:6 All day long, they curse my words. All their intentions are for evil against me.Psalm 56:6
Psalm 77:12 and I will meditate on all your works. And I will take part in your intentions.Psalm 77:12
Psalm 111:2 Great are the works of the Lord, exquisite in all his intentions.Psalm 111:2
Psalm 119:118 You have despised all those who fell away from your judgments. For their intention is unjust.Psalm 119:118
Number of the word / term Intention in Psalm: 5
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 15:5 A fool laughs at the discipline of his father. But whoever preserves rebukes will become astute. In abundant justice, there is very great virtue. But the intentions of the impious will be eradicated.Proverbs 15:5
Proverbs 15:26 Evil intentions are an abomination to the Lord. And pure conversation, most beautiful, shall be confirmed by him.Proverbs 15:26
Proverbs 16:3 Open your works to the Lord, and your intentions will be set in order.Proverbs 16:3
Proverbs 19:21 There are many intentions in the heart of a man. But the will of the Lord shall stand firm.Proverbs 19:21
Proverbs 21:5 The intentions of the robust continually bring forth abundance. But all the lazy are continually in need.Proverbs 21:5
Proverbs 24:9 The intention of the foolish is sin. And the detractor is an abomination among men.Proverbs 24:9
Number of the word / term Intention in Proverbs: 6
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 1:16 Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely.Isaiah 1:16
Isaiah 29:15 Woe to you who use the depths of the heart, so that you may hide your intentions from the Lord. Their works are done in darkness, and so they say: “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”Isaiah 29:15
Isaiah 29:16 This intention of yours is perverse. It is as if the clay were to plan against the potter, or as if the work were to say to its maker: “You did not make me.” Or it is as if what has been formed were to say to the one who formed it, “You do not understand.”Isaiah 29:16
Number of the word / term Intention in Isaiah: 3
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 7:3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Make your ways and your intentions good, and I will live with you in this place.Jeremiah 7:3
Jeremiah 7:5 For if you direct your ways and your intentions well, if you exercise judgment between a man and his neighbor,Jeremiah 7:5
Jeremiah 18:11 Now, therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am forming an evil against you, and I am considering a plan against you. Let each one of you return from his evil way, and direct your ways and your intentions well.”Jeremiah 18:11
Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David! Thus says the Lord: Judge with judgment from early morning, and rescue anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. Otherwise, my indignation may go forth like a fire, and may flare up, and there will be no one who can extinguish it, because of the evil of your intentions.Jeremiah 21:12
Jeremiah 21:14 But I will visit against you according to the fruit of your intentions, says the Lord. And I will kindle a fire in its forest. And it shall devour everything around it.”Jeremiah 21:14
Jeremiah 26:13 Now, therefore, make your ways and your intentions good, and heed the voice of the Lord your God. And then the Lord will repent of the evil that he has spoken against you.Jeremiah 26:13
Jeremiah 32:19 You are great in counsel and incomprehensible in thought. Your eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of Adam, so that you may repay each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his intentions.Jeremiah 32:19
Jeremiah 35:15 And I have sent to you all my servants, the prophets, rising at first light, and sending, and saying: ‘Convert, each one from his wicked way, and make your intentions good. And do not choose to follow strange gods, nor shall you worship them. And then you shall live in the land which I gave to you and to your fathers.’ And yet you have not inclined your ear, and you have not heeded me.Jeremiah 35:15
Jeremiah 44:22 And the Lord could no longer bear this, because of the evil of your intentions, and because of the abominations that you have done. And so, your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, and it is without an inhabitant, even to this day.Jeremiah 44:22
Number of the word / term Intention in Jeremiah: 9
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 24:14 I, the Lord, have spoken. It shall happen, and I will act. I will not pass over, nor be lenient, nor be placated. I will judge you according to your ways and according to your intentions, says the Lord.”Ezekiel 24:14
Ezekiel 36:17 “Son of man, the house of Israel lived on their own soil, and they defiled it with their ways and with their intentions. Their way, in my sight, became like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.Ezekiel 36:17
Ezekiel 36:31 And you shall remember your very wicked ways and your intentions, which were not good. And you will be displeased by your own iniquities and your own crimes.Ezekiel 36:31
Number of the word / term Intention in Ezekiel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Hosea
Hosea 4:9 And, just as it is with the people, so will it be with the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them for their intentions.Hosea 4:9
Number of the word / term Intention in Hosea: 1
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Micah
Micah 7:13 And the land will be in desolation, because of its inhabitants and because of the fruit of their intentions.Micah 7:13
Number of the word / term Intention in Micah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Luke
Luke 1:51 He has accomplished powerful deeds with his arm. He has scattered the arrogant in the intentions of their heart.Luke 1:51
Number of the word / term Intention in Luke: 1
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Acts
Acts 5:35 And he said to them: “Men of Israel, you should be careful in your intentions about these men.Acts 5:35
Number of the word / term Intention in Acts: 1
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book 2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians 2:11 so that we would not be circumvented by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his intentions.2 Corinthians 2:11
Number of the word / term Intention in 2 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Colossians
Colossians 2:23 Such ideas have at least an intention to attain to wisdom, but through superstition and debasement, not sparing the body, and they are without any honor in satiating the flesh.Colossians 2:23
Number of the word / term Intention in Colossians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book Hebrews
Hebrews 4:12 For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.Hebrews 4:12
Number of the word / term Intention in Hebrews: 1
Bible passages with ‘Intention’ in the book 1 Peter
1 Peter 4:1 Since Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also should be armed with the same intention. For he who suffers in the flesh desists from sin,1 Peter 4:1
Number of the word / term ‘Intention’ in 1 Peter: 1
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