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NIV John 16:2
. They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

NIV Acts 5:4
Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied to men but to God."

Ideas may influence a person's choice, but, in and of themselves, ideas do not have consequences.

Thoughts about thoughts.................

NIV Romans 1:21
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

NIV Romans 13:14
Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

NIV 1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.

NIV Ephesians 4:17
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

NIV Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

NIV 2 Peter 3:1
Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.

To think, or contemplate, is a choice in itself. There is the choice to entertain evil thoughts, instead of dismiss them. That's the first step down a dark path. You cannot make that choice and expect it not to have consequences. At first, they may not be noticeable, because the initial consequences take place within a person's heart. I call this watering weeds. As the weed grows through successive choices to water, it will eventually bare evil fruit. If we wish to protect our heart, we can not choose to delight in such thoughts. If one feels hate, and waters it through his thoughts, it will grow. The seed may not have been planted by choice, but growing it is. Christ understood this in His teachings.

Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Ephesians 2:3
All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

James 4:4
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God

Romans 8;5
5Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

If you check my about page, you'll see I'm hoping to publish a book. It's a Christian novel, and the theme is about consequences of choice. It was interesting to write, because these characters in my head became so real! I'd sit there and contemplate the thoughts going through their heads, and whether they delighted in them, or resisted. Talk about schizophrenia! My husband would walk in and try to tell me something, and I'd be like, "Hush! I'm arguing with myself!" Which, I wasn't really arguing with myself, but the conflict of my character's thought was playing out in my head. Writing it was a great experience though! It was a side of me I didn't know existed.