Thematic Bible: Character of the unrenewed Heart


Thematic Bible



A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.


He that has a crooked heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse tongue falls into calamity.



And the LORD smelled a sweet odor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.




And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

You have neither part nor lot in this matter: for your heart is not right in the sight of God.



But the house of Israel will not hearken unto you; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.

And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.



Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitterness or wormwood;



But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.



We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceedingly proud) his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.


Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, who could keep ranks: they had singleness of heart.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.





They that are of a perverse heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:






But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.


Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.

Your fierceness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, that hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.


Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed.

Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and not perceive: For the heart of this people is stubborn, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.



These people draw near unto me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.


Therefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

Hearken unto me, you stubborn of heart, that are far from righteousness:



And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity:


For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

And the LORD said unto Moses, When you go to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, whom I have put in your hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.


A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.







Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.




Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.


And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are fetters: whosoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.


This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.


This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.


The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is of little worth.




Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their faces: should I be inquired of at all by them? Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols;




O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?






Thus says the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a spiteful heart, to destroy for the old hatred;


But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone away.




A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.




Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:




For they are impudent children and stubborn. I do send you unto them; and you shall say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD.


According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.




Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall ruin their images.




And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;