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Where is “My thoughts are not your thoughts” in the Bible?
“My thoughts are not your thoughts” is Isaiah 55:8. God says it through the prophet Isaiah.
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In the Bible
It is Isaiah 55:8.
Yes, it is in the Bible.
God says it through the prophet Isaiah.
The verse
For my thoughts are nothing like your thoughts, and your ways are nothing like my ways, declares Yahweh. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9 · open the chapter →
What it means there
The verse before it calls the wicked to come back, because God will pardon freely (Isaiah 55:7). The thought that is so far above ours is his mercy.
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Where is “My thoughts are not your thoughts” in the Bible?
“My thoughts are not your thoughts” is Isaiah 55:8. These exact words are in the King James Bible. The Lumin Translation, a modern English Bible, is quoted here, and it words the verse differently. God says it through the prophet Isaiah.
Is “My thoughts are not your thoughts” in the Bible?
Yes. It is Isaiah 55:8. In the Lumin Translation, Isaiah 55:8-9 reads: “For my thoughts are nothing like your thoughts, and your ways are nothing like my ways, declares Yahweh. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.”
Who said “My thoughts are not your thoughts”?
God says it through the prophet Isaiah.
What does “My thoughts are not your thoughts” mean in the Bible?
The verse before it calls the wicked to come back, because God will pardon freely (Isaiah 55:7). The thought that is so far above ours is his mercy.
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