Quotes About Intention

And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.

The earth quakes and writhes because the LORDís intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ëWhen you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?

He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

What then shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.

I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you by my letters.

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.