17 Bible Verses about Nature Of The Heart

They search out injustice, saying, We have finished hiding a hidden plot. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are deep.

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

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are strong of forehead and hard of heart.

And they made their hearts adamant from hearing the Law and the Words which Jehovah of Hosts has sent through His Spirit, by the former prophets. And great wrath came from Jehovah of Hosts.

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

The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share in its joy.

The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Your way and your doings have brought these things on you; this is your evil, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah. The oracle utters transgression to the wicked within my heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.

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

Therefore speak to them, and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him in it by the host of his idols;

for this people's heart has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time 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."

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

But those on the good ground are the ones who, in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience.

O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.