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16 Bible Verses About Being Positive

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Summary

  • Philippians 4:8 lists what to think about, beginning with whatever is true, and the next verse tells the readers to put what they have learned into practice.
  • Paul commands “Rejoice in the Lord always” in a letter written while he was “in chains for Christ” (Philippians 1:13).
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:18 asks for thanks “in all circumstances”, and 5:14 in the same chapter tells the church to encourage the disheartened.
  • In Lamentations 3:21-23 hope comes from what the speaker calls to mind, the Lord’s love and faithfulness, while his soul is downcast.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles who were told to settle in Babylon until seventy years were completed.

The Bible’s nearest subjects to being positive are what a person sets the mind on, joy, and hope, and its writers ground each of them in God. Philippians 4:8 lists what to think about, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 commands thanks “in all circumstances”, and John 16:33 promises peace in the same verse that forecasts “trouble”. Paul wrote Philippians while “in chains for Christ” (Philippians 1:13), Jeremiah 29 is a letter to the exiles in Babylon, and Lamentations opens over a deserted…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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