'Soul' in the Bible

If from there you will seek the LORD your God, then you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and soul.

You are to love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

"If you carefully observe the commands that I'm giving you today, to love the LORD your God and serve him with all your heart and soul,

you must not listen to the words of that prophet or that diviner of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to make known whether or not you'll continue to love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.

"Your own blood brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your friend who is like your soul mate may entice you quietly. He may tell you, "Let's go and serve other gods,' (whom neither you nor your ancestors have known

"The LORD your God is commanding you this very day to observe these statutes and judgments. Be careful to obey them with all your heart and soul.

and when you you and your descendants, that is will have returned to him and obeyed all the commands that I'm giving you today with all your heart and soul,

Then the LORD your God will circumcise both your hearts and those of your descendants so that you can love him with your heart and with your soul and therefore live.

if you obey him and keep his commands and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you return to him with all your heart and soul.

Only be very careful to keep the commands and the Law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you that is, to love the LORD your God, to follow in all of his ways, to keep his commands, to stay close to him, and to serve him with all your heart and soul."

The current of the Kishon River swept them downstream, that ancient current, the Kishon's current! March on strongly, my soul!

"No, sir!" Hannah replied. "I'm a deeply troubled woman. I've drunk neither wine nor beer. I've been pouring out my soul in the LORD's presence.

"As your soul lives, your majesty, the king," the woman answered, "no one can divert anything left or right from what your majesty the king has spoken! As a matter of fact, it was your servant Joab! He was there, giving me precise orders about everything that your humble servant was to say. Your servant Joab did this, intending to change the outcome of this matter. Nevertheless, your majesty is wise, like the wisdom of the angel of God, to be aware of everything that's going on throughout the earth."

and so that the LORD may fulfill his promise that he spoke about me when he said, "If your sons pay attention to how they live by walking truthfully in my presence with all their heart and with all their soul, you will never lack a man on the throne of Israel.'

if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, as they pray to you in the direction of their land that you have given to their ancestors and to the city that you have chosen, and to the Temple that I have built for your name,

Then he stretched himself three times and cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, please cause the soul of this little boy to return to him."

The LORD listened to Elijah, and the soul of the little boy returned to him, and he revived.

The king stood beside a pillar and made a covenant in the presence of the LORD: to follow after the LORD, to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes with all of his heart and soul, and to carry out what was written in the covenant contained in the book. All the people consented to enter into the covenant.

There had been no king like him before him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his strength, in obeying everything in the Law of Moses. No king arose like Josiah after him.

"Now as for you, my son Solomon, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with a sound heart and a devoted soul, because the LORD is searching every heart, every plan and thought. He will be found by you, assuming you are seeking him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you forever.

if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land where they have been taken captive, as they pray in the direction of their land that you have given to their ancestors and to the city that you have chosen, and to the Temple that I have built for your name,

They also entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with all their heart and soul,

While standing in his appointed place, the king made a public covenant with the LORD to follow the LORD, to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, and to do so with all of his heart and soul, and to carry out what was written in the covenant contained in the book.

"In addition, I won't keep my opinion to myself; I'll speak from my distressed spirit; I'll complain with my bitter soul.

"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.

Others die with a bitter soul, never having tasted the good life.

"Now, my soul pours itself out; the time of my affliction has taken control of me.

sparing his soul from the Pit and his life from violent death.

His soul is getting close to the Pit; his life is approaching its executioner."

He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit; my life will see the light.'

to bring back his soul from the Pit; to light him with the light of life."

And my soul is deeply distressed. But you, LORD, how long do I wait?

How long must I struggle in my soul at night and have sorrow in my heart during the day? How long will my enemy rise up against me?

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, you will not allow your holy one to experience corruption.

I will lift up my soul to you, LORD.

I will rejoice and be glad in your gracious love, for you see my affliction and take note that my soul is distressed.

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body.

My soul will glorify the LORD; the humble will hear about it and rejoice.

My soul will rejoice in the LORD and be glad in his deliverance.

They paid me back evil for good; my soul mourns.

As an antelope pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come and appear in God's presence?

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for once again I will praise him, since his presence saves me.

My God, my soul feels depressed within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan, from the heights of Hermon, even from the foothills.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for once again I will praise him, since his presence saves me and he is my God.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will praise him once again, since his presence saves me and he is my God. To the Director: An instruction of the Sons of Korah.

He calmly ransomed my soul from the war waged against me, for there was a vast crowd who stood against me.

Wake up, my soul, wake up, lyre and harp! I will awaken at dawn.

My soul rests quietly only when it looks to God; from him comes my deliverance.

My soul, be quiet before God, for from him comes my hope.

God, you are my God! I will fervently seek you. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you in a dry, weary, and parched land.

My soul clings to you, even as your right hand supports me.

Bless the LORD, my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

Bless the LORD, my soul, and never forget any of his benefits:

Bless the LORD, all his creation, in all the places of his dominion. Bless the LORD, my soul. Davidic

Bless the LORD, my soul; LORD, my God, you are very great. You are clothed in splendor and majesty;

May sinners disappear from the land and the wicked live no longer. Bless the LORD, my soul! Hallelujah!

Return to your resting place, my soul, for the LORD treated you generously.

Indeed, you delivered my soul from death, my eyes from crying, and my feet from stumbling.

My soul is consumed with longing for your decrees at all times.

My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to your word.

My soul treasures your decrees, and I love them deeply.

I wait for the LORD; my soul waits, and I will hope in his word.

My soul looks to the Lord more than watchmen look for the morning more, indeed, than watchmen for the morning.

Hallelujah! Praise the LORD, my soul!

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Whoever commits adultery with a woman is out of his mind; by doing so he corrupts his own soul.

Fulfilled longing is sweet to the soul, but avoiding evil is detestable to the fool.

Pleasant words are honey from a honeycomb sweet to the soul and healing for the body.

The soul of the wicked craves evil; he extends no mercy to his neighbor.

Punish him with a rod, and you will rescue his soul from Sheol.

If you say, "Look here, we didn't know about this," doesn't God, who examines motives, discern it? Doesn't the one who guards your soul know about it? Won't he repay each person according to what he has done?

Keep in mind that wisdom is like that for your soul; if you find it, there will be a future for you, and what you hope for won't be cut short.

Ointments and perfume encourage the heart; in a similar way, a friend's advice is sweet to the soul.

Correct your son and he will comfort you; he will also delight your soul.

The splendor of its forest and its fruitful land the LORD will destroy both soul and body and Assyria will be as when a dying man wastes away.

My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me searches for you. For when your judgments come upon the earth, the world's inhabitants learn righteousness.

"Yet the LORD was willing to crush him, and he made him suffer. Although you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring, and he will prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will triumph in his hand.

Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.

Why spend your money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in rich food.

And the LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in parched places, and they will strengthen your bones; and you'll be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.

"I will heartily rejoice in the LORD, my soul will delight in my God; for he has wrapped me in garments of salvation; he has arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, just like a bridegroom, like a priest with a garland, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

I'll rejoice over them to do good for them, and I'll faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.'

Because of all this, I weep; my eyes stream with tears because far from me is the comforter of my soul. My children are sorrowful, because the enemy has won.

"The LORD is all I have," says my soul, "Therefore I will trust in him."

What I see grieves my soul because of all the young women of my city.

Look! Every living soul belongs to me the father's as well as the son's. So pay attention! The person who keeps on sinning is going to die."

The soul who sins dies. The son won't bear the punishment of his father's sin and the father won't bear the punishment of his son's sin. The righteous deeds of that righteous person will be attributed to him, while the wicked deeds of the wicked person will be charged against him.

The first resembled a lion, but it had eagles' wings. I continued to watch until its wings were plucked off, it was lifted up off the ground, and it was forced to stand on two feet like a man. A human soul was imparted to it.

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with endless rivers of oil? Am I to give my firstborn to pay for my rebellion, the fruit of my body in exchange for my soul?

Stop being afraid of those who kill the body but can't kill the soul. Instead, be afraid of the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell.

Jesus told him, ""You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'

Then Mary said, "My soul praises the greatness of the Lord!

Indeed, a sword will pierce your own soul, too, so that the inner thoughts of many people might be revealed."

He answered, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind. And you must love your neighbor as yourself."

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or allow your Holy One to experience decay.

Now all the believers were one in heart and soul, and nobody called any of his possessions his own. Instead, they shared everything they owned.

May the God of peace himself make you holy in every way. And may your whole being spirit, soul, and body remain blameless when our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, appears.