13 Bible Verses about Sinful Hearts

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

But the hypocrites in heart shall irritate him more; they shall not cry out when he binds them.

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.

And if he came to see me, he spoke lies: his heart gathered iniquity to itself, and when he goes out, he tells it.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,

Who shall be able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Why should I chastise you any more? Ye will revolt more and more; every head is sick, and every heart faint.

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why think ye evil in your hearts?

And Jesus, knowing afterward in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said unto them, Why think ye these things in your hearts?

Then Jesus, knowing their thoughts and answering them said, What reason ye in your hearts?

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

For he had said that it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders, the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:read more.
all these evil things come out from within and defile the man.