17 Bible Verses about Nature Of The Heart

They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?

But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for none of them will hearken unto me. For all the house of Israel are hard of forehead and stiff of heart.

And they made their heart as an adamant, that they should not hear the law, and the words that Jehovah of hosts sent by his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets: therefore was there great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

The heart of the wise maketh his mouth intelligent, and upon his lips increaseth learning.

Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, yea, it is bitter, yea, it reacheth unto thy heart.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of the servant of Jehovah; of David.} The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

Therefore speak to them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet, I Jehovah will answer him according to this, according to the multitude of his idols:

for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, ye also.