An Exercised Mind

Mk 12.28-30 “28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? 29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.”

Rm 12.1-2 “1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

1 Co 2.14-16 “14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible Mind

Mind. Man’s intellectual processes in a narrow sense or, more broadly, the sum total of a man’s mental and moral state of being.

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible Mind

The concept of the soul relates to “person” or “personality.” When it refers to the mind the term indicates that the mind is distinct from matter and nearly always dictates more than the reasoning faculty, but includes feelings, interest, and the will

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible Mind

The Gospel writers are unanimous in their agreement that Jesus added “with all your mind” to Deuteronomy 6:5. In Mark, however, the questioner repeats the command of Jesus but with a word for understanding in place of the word for mind (Mk 12:33). In other places Jesus connects the processes of thinking with the heart (Mt 9:4). He makes the heart the source of the acts of a man (12:34).

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible Mind

The state of a man depends upon what or who controls his mind. Romans 8:6, 7 speaks of a man’s mind being controlled either by the flesh or by the Spirit. The man whose mind is controlled by the flesh is evil. The mind controlled by the Spirit leads to good. Other passages refer to the inclination of a man’s mind being controlled by the god of this world (2 Cor 4:4).

Ep 4.17-19 “17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.”

Ep 4.20-24 “20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”