9 Bible Verses about The Inner Man

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things. Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.

The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.

That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.