9 Bible Verses about Half Heartedness

We desire that you are not lazy, but follow those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

However I have this against you: you do not love me now as you did at first. Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins (repent) and do what you did at first. If you do not turn from your sins, I will come to you and remove your lamp stand from its place.

But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of Jehovah with all his heart. He did not keep himself from the sin that Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

He said: Take the arrows! So he took them. He said to the king of Israel: Send them down into the earth. He did so three times and no more.

Then the man of God was angry with him and said: If you had done it five or six times, then you would have overcome Aram completely. Now you will only overcome them three times.

However the illegal worship sites on the hills were not torn down. The people still did not have their hearts set on the God of their ancestors.

He did what Jehovah considered right, but he did not do it wholeheartedly.

Even after all this, Israel's treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart. She was deceitful, says Jehovah.

The peoples hearts are deceitful. They must suffer for their sins. Jehovah will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.