18 Bible Verses about God And The Heart

But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For [God does] not [see] what man sees, for a man {looks on the outward appearance}, but Yahweh {looks on the heart}."

And I will kill her children with deadly disease, and all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me. Try my {innermost being} and my {mind}.

Yet, Yahweh of hosts, who tests [the] righteous, who sees [the] {heart} and [the] {mind}, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case.

he who fashions altogether their heart, he who understands all their works.

And they prayed [and] said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show clearly which one of these two you have chosen

And God, who knows the heart, testified to them [by] giving [them] the Holy Spirit, just as he also [did] to us.

Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both enlighten the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of hearts, and then praise will come to each one from God.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.

So he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me.

{You have no} part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.

[that] Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love),

And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and toward the patient endurance of Christ.

By this we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him,

that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all [things].

Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn [us], we have confidence before God,

For God put into their hearts to carry out his purpose and to make {a unanimous decision} and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.