18 Bible Verses about God Knowing the Human Heart
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hear their prayer. Listen to them in your home in heaven, help them and forgive them. You alone know the thoughts of the human heart. Deal with each person, as he deserves,
You my son Solomon, learn to know your father's God. Serve Jehovah wholeheartedly and willingly because he searches every heart and understands every thought we have. If you dedicate your life to serving him, he will accept you. On the other hand if you abandon him, he will reject you from then on.
But Jehovah said to Samuel: Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature. I have rejected him. God does not see as man sees. Man looks at the outward appearance. Jehovah looks at the heart (inner man).
Let the evil of the wicked come to an end. Establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.
May the words from my mouth and the thoughts from my heart be acceptable to you, O Jehovah, my rock and my Redeemer (Purchaser).
You know when I sit down and when I rise up. You understand my thought from afar. You inspect my path and my lying down. You are intimately acquainted with my ways. Even before I speak words from my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, You know it all.read more.
You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. Knowing this is too wonderful for me! It is too high, I cannot attain to it. Where can I go from your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in the grave, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there your hand will lead me. Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say: Certainly the darkness will overwhelm me! Then the light around me will be night. Even the darkness is not dark to you. And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to you. For you formed my inward parts. You wove me in my mother's womb. I will praise you, for in an awesome way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my embryo and all were written in your book; the days ordained for me. Even this before one had taken place. How precious are your thoughts to me, O God! How numerous is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with you. If you would destroy the wicked, O God, depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed. For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain. Do I not hate those who hate You, O Jehovah? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with the utmost hatred! They have become my enemies. Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious (troubled) (painful) (disturbing) thoughts.
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to Jehovah. The words of the pure are pleasant words.
O Jehovah of Hosts, you are a fair judge. You test motives and thoughts. I want to see you take revenge on them. For that reason I presented my case to you.
Yet, O Jehovah of Hosts you test the righteous. You see the mind and the heart. Let me see your vengeance on them for to you I have revealed my cause.
Jehovah's Spirit came to me and told me to say: This is what Jehovah says: 'You are saying these things, nation of Israel. But I know what is going through your mind.
I will kill her children with deadly plague. Then all the congregations will know that I am the one who searches hearts and minds. I will reward each of you for what you have done.
Jesus immediately discerned in his spirit that they reasoned within themselves. He asked them: Why reason these things in your hearts?