Bible Verses About Overthinking (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 · Berean Standard Bible
For minds caught in spirals of overthinking, 2 Corinthians 10:5 offers a strategy: '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.' Paul treats runaway thoughts as something you can confront rather than passively obey. Instead of letting anxious thinking run the show, you capture each thought and bring it under the truth of Christ.
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3For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
4The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
5We demolish arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
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