John 3:10
Jesus answered: Are you a teacher of Israel and you do not understand these things?
Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise your heart, and do not stiffen your neck. (Circumcise: Cut short the foreskin.) (Remove hardness of the heart.)
Deuteronomy 30:6
Jehovah your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, to LOVE JEHOVAH YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR BEING, that you may live.
1 Chronicles 29:19
Give my son Solomon a wholehearted desire to obey everything that you command and to build the Temple for which I have made these preparations.
Psalm 51:6
Yet, you desire truth from the secret person within me. Deep down inside me teach me wisdom.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast (dependable) spirit within me.
Psalm 73:1
([Psalm of Asaph]) God is truly good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Isaiah 9:16
Those who led this people led them astray. And those who were led by them were left in confusion.
Isaiah 11:6-9
The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the well-fed animal together. A little boy will lead them.
Isaiah 29:10-12
Jehovah has made you drowsy. He shut your eyes in a deep sleep you prophets and visionaries. He overwhelmed your leaders.
Isaiah 56:10
Israel's watchmen are blind. They all lack knowledge they are all mute dogs. They cannot bark. They just lie around and dream, they love to sleep.
Isaiah 66:7-9
Before a woman goes into labor, she gives birth. Before she has labor pains, she delivers a male child.
Jeremiah 8:8-9
How can you say you are wise and that you have Jehovah's Laws? The scribes have used their pens to spread falsehoods.
Jeremiah 31:33
This is the covenant (agreement) that I will make with Israel after those days, declares Jehovah. I will put my teachings (Law) inside them. I will write those teachings (Law) on their hearts (inner man) (mind) (will) (conscience) (understanding). I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Jeremiah 32:39-40
I will give them the same attitude and the same purpose so that they will respect and reverence me as long as they live. This will be for their good and for the good of their children.
Ezekiel 11:19
I will give them one (united) heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will take the heart of stone (unkind attitude) out of them and give them a heart of flesh (loving disposition).
Ezekiel 18:31-32
Give up all the evil you have been doing. Get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?
Ezekiel 36:25-27
I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.
Ezekiel 37:23-24
They will no longer dishonor themselves with their idols, with their detestable things, or with their rebellious acts. I will forgive them for all the times they turned away from me and sinned. I will cleanse them so that they will be my people, and I will be their God.
Matthew 11:25
Then Jesus prayed: I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and have revealed them to children. (Acts 2:36)
Matthew 15:14
Let them be. They are blind guides. If a blind man guides another blind man, they will fall in a hole together.
Matthew 22:29
Jesus answered: You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.
Luke 2:46
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers. He was listening and asking them questions.
Romans 2:28
He is not a Jew who is one on the outside. Neither is circumcision that which is on the outside in the flesh.
Philippians 3:3
We are those with true circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God. We glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.
Colossians 2:11
You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.