HEART

Passages on this topic · 266

• Genesis 6:5

  Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

• Genesis 8:21

  Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

• Exodus 4:21

  Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

• Exodus 7:3

  I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 7:13

  Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

• Exodus 7:22

  The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments; and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.

• Exodus 8:15

  But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

• Exodus 8:32

  Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.

• Exodus 9:12

  Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.

• Deuteronomy 2:30

  But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

• Deuteronomy 5:29

  Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

• Deuteronomy 6:5

  You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

• Deuteronomy 6:6

  These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

• Deuteronomy 10:12

  Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

• Deuteronomy 11:13

  It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

• Deuteronomy 26:16

  Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Deuteronomy 29:18

  lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

• Deuteronomy 30:2

  and return to Yahweh your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

• Deuteronomy 30:6

  Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

• Deuteronomy 31:21

  It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”

• Joshua 11:20

  For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• 1 Samuel 1:13

  Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

• 1 Samuel 2:1

  Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

• 1 Samuel 6:6

  Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?

• 1 Samuel 10:9

  It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs happened that day.

• 1 Samuel 10:26

  Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

• 1 Samuel 17:28

  Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

• 1 Samuel 24:5

  Afterward, David’s heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

• 2 Samuel 7:20

  What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

• 1 Kings 2:4

  Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

• 1 Kings 3:9

  Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

• 1 Kings 3:11

  God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

• 1 Kings 3:12

  behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

• 1 Kings 4:29

  God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

• 1 Kings 8:39

  then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)

• 2 Kings 14:10

  You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

• 2 Kings 22:19

  because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

• 1 Chronicles 12:33

  Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could command and were not of double heart.

• 1 Chronicles 28:9

  You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

• 1 Chronicles 29:17

  I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

• 1 Chronicles 29:18

  Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

• 2 Chronicles 12:14

  He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek Yahweh.

• 2 Chronicles 17:16

  and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Yahweh, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 19:3

  Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

• 2 Chronicles 25:19

  You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

• 2 Chronicles 26:16

  But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

• 2 Chronicles 30:19

  who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

• Ezra 6:22

  and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

• Ezra 7:10

  For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

• Ezra 7:27

  Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

• Nehemiah 9:8

  found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

• Job 9:4

  God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

• Job 11:11

  For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

• Job 16:19

  Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

• Job 23:16

  For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

• Job 31:4

  Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

• Psalms 1:6

  For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

• Psalms 4:4

  Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

• Psalms 4:7

  You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

• Psalms 7:9

  Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

• Psalms 9:1

  For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm by David. I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

• Psalms 10:17

  Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

• Psalms 12:2

  Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

• Psalms 22:14

  I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

• Psalms 22:26

  The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

• Psalms 24:4

  He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

• Psalms 26:2

  Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

• Psalms 27:3

  Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

• Psalms 27:8

  When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

• Psalms 27:14

  Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

• Psalms 28:3

  Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

• Psalms 34:18

  Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

• Psalms 44:21

  won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

• Psalms 51:10

  Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

• Psalms 51:17

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

• Psalms 57:7

  My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.

• Psalms 66:18

  If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

• Psalms 73:1

  A Psalm by Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

• Psalms 76:5

  Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

• Psalms 77:6

  I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

• Psalms 84:2

  My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

• Psalms 94:11

  Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

• Psalms 95:10

  Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

• Psalms 97:11

  Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

• Psalms 101:4

  A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

• Psalms 101:5

  I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

• Psalms 112:7

  He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

• Psalms 112:8

  His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

• Psalms 119:10

  With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

• Psalms 119:69

  The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

• Psalms 119:112

  I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH

• Psalms 119:145

  I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

• Psalms 119:161

  Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

• Psalms 125:4

  Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

• Psalms 139:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

• Psalms 139:2

  You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

• Psalms 139:3

  You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

• Psalms 139:4

  For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

• Psalms 139:5

  You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

• Psalms 139:6

  This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

• Psalms 139:7

  Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

• Psalms 139:8

  If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

• Psalms 139:9

  If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

• Psalms 139:10

  Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

• Psalms 139:11

  If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night”;

• Psalms 139:12

  even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

• Psalms 140:2

  those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

• Proverbs 3:5

  Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

• Proverbs 4:23

  Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

• Proverbs 5:21

  For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

• Proverbs 6:14

  in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

• Proverbs 6:18

  a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

• Proverbs 7:10

  Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

• Proverbs 8:10

  Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

• Proverbs 10:8

  The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

• Proverbs 11:20

  Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

• Proverbs 11:29

  He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

• Proverbs 12:8

  A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

• Proverbs 12:23

  A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

• Proverbs 14:30

  The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

• Proverbs 14:33

  Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

• Proverbs 15:13

  A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

• Proverbs 15:14

  The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

• Proverbs 15:15

  All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

• Proverbs 16:1

  The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

• Proverbs 16:2

  All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

• Proverbs 17:3

  The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

• Proverbs 17:20

  One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

• Proverbs 18:12

  Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

• Proverbs 20:9

  Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

• Proverbs 21:1

  The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

• Proverbs 21:2

  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

• Proverbs 22:11

  He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

• Proverbs 22:15

  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

• Proverbs 23:15

  My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

• Proverbs 24:2

  for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

• Proverbs 28:14

  Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

• Proverbs 28:25

  One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

• Ecclesiastes 7:26

  I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

• Ecclesiastes 8:11

  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

• Ecclesiastes 9:3

  This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

• Isaiah 6:10

  Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

• Isaiah 9:9

  All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

• Isaiah 10:12

  Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

• Isaiah 46:12

  Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

• Isaiah 65:14

  Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

• Isaiah 66:18

  “For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

• Jeremiah 4:14

  Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

• Jeremiah 4:18

  “Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

• Jeremiah 4:19

  My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can’t hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

• Jeremiah 5:23

  “But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.

• Jeremiah 11:20

  But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

• Jeremiah 12:3

  But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

• Jeremiah 17:1

  “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.

• Jeremiah 17:5

  Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 17:9

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

• Jeremiah 17:10

  “I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

• Jeremiah 20:9

  If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I can’t.

• Jeremiah 20:12

  But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

• Jeremiah 22:17

  But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

• Jeremiah 32:40

  and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

• Jeremiah 48:29

  “We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

• Jeremiah 49:16

  As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

• Lamentations 3:51

  My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

• Ezekiel 2:4

  The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’

• Ezekiel 3:7

  But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

• Ezekiel 6:9

  Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

• Ezekiel 11:5

  Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

• Ezekiel 11:19

  I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

• Ezekiel 11:20

  that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

• Ezekiel 11:21

  But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

• Ezekiel 18:31

  Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

• Ezekiel 25:15

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;

• Ezekiel 36:25

  I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

• Ezekiel 36:26

  I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

• Daniel 5:20

  But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

• Hosea 10:2

  Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

• Hosea 13:6

  According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

• Zechariah 10:7

  Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

• Matthew 5:8

  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

• Matthew 9:4

  Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

• Matthew 11:29

  Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

• Matthew 12:33

  “Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

• Matthew 12:34

  You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

• Matthew 15:18

  But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

• Matthew 15:19

  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

• Matthew 15:20

  These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

• Matthew 22:37

  Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

• Matthew 23:26

  You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

• Mark 6:52

  for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

• Mark 7:21

  For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

• Mark 10:5

  But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

• Mark 16:14

  Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

• Luke 8:15

  That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

• Luke 16:15

  He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

• John 3:3

  Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

• John 3:7

  Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

• John 12:40

  “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

• John 13:2

  During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

• Acts 1:24

  They prayed, and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

• Acts 2:46

  Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

• Acts 5:3

  But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

• Acts 8:21

  You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

• Acts 8:22

  Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

• Acts 8:37
• Acts 9:1

  But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

• Acts 9:2

  and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

• Acts 9:3

  As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

• Acts 9:4

  He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

• Acts 9:5

  He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

• Acts 9:6

  But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

• Acts 9:7

  The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

• Acts 9:8

  Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

• Acts 9:9

  He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

• Acts 9:10

  Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”

• Acts 9:11

  The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

• Acts 9:12

  and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight.”

• Acts 9:13

  But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

• Acts 9:14

  Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

• Acts 9:15

  But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

• Acts 9:16

  For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

• Acts 9:17

  Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

• Acts 9:18

  Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

• Acts 15:8

  God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

• Acts 16:14

  A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

• Acts 28:26

  saying, ‘Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

• Acts 28:27

  For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’

• Romans 1:21

  Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

• Romans 2:5

  But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

• Romans 2:14

  (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

• Romans 2:15

  in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

• Romans 2:16

  in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

• Romans 2:29

  but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

• Romans 6:17

  But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

• Romans 8:7

  because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

• Romans 8:27

  He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

• Romans 10:10

  For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

• 1 Corinthians 3:20

  And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

• 2 Corinthians 4:6

  seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

• Ephesians 4:18

  being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

• Ephesians 4:23

  and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

• Ephesians 4:32

  And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

• Ephesians 6:5

  Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

• Ephesians 6:6

  not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

• Colossians 3:10

  and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

• Colossians 3:22

  Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:4

  But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

• 1 Thessalonians 3:13

  to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

• 1 Timothy 1:5

  but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

• 2 Timothy 2:22

  Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

• Hebrews 3:8

  don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

• Hebrews 3:10

  Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’

• Hebrews 3:15

  while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

• Hebrews 4:12

  For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

• Hebrews 10:22

  let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

• Hebrews 11:17

  By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

• James 1:6

  But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

• James 1:8

  He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

• James 4:8

  Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

• 1 Peter 1:22

  Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

• 1 Peter 3:15

  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

• 2 Peter 2:14

  having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

• Revelation 2:2

  “I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

• Revelation 2:10

  Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

• Revelation 2:23

  I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.