1. Write the definition of attitude. You may need also to define feelings and thoughts.

2. Are our attitudes, feelings, or thoughts always correct?

3. Proverbs 21:2, "________ _____ of a man is ___________ in his ______ eyes, but the ______ weighs the hearts."

4. Proverbs 4:23, "Keep your ________ with all _________________, for out of it spring the issues of life."

5. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) gives the definition of issues in Proverbs 4:23 as free moral choices . Explain how keeping attitudes / thoughts in harmony with God’s word would affect the issues of one’s life.

6. Does what is within one’s heart affect one’s speech?

7. Read Luke 6:45 and explain.

8. Proverbs 27:19, "As in water _______ reflects ________, so a man's _________ reveals the ________."

9. What does Matthew 9:4 teach us about Jesus and our thoughts?

10. Hebrews 4:12, "For the _______ ___ _____ is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the _____________ and ___________ of the __________."

11. Is one able to keep her attitudes / thoughts hidden from God?

12. Read Matthew 15:1-9. Is it possible for one today to be like those Jesus was speaking about in verse 8? 

What word in verse 7 did Jesus use to describe those who honored God with their lips, but their hearts were far from Him?

What phrase in verse 9 did Jesus use to describe the worship of those who honored God with their lips, but their hearts were far from Him, as they taught as doctrines the commandments of men?

13. Matthew 12:35, "A _______ man out of the _______ treasure of his heart brings forth ______ things, and an _______ man out of the _______ treasure brings forth ________ things."

14. Please comment on the question, "Are our attitudes / thoughts important?" Use scriptures to prove your answer.