17 Bible Verses about Nature Of The Heart

Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.

And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.

And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?

For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.