17 Bible Verses about Nature Of The Heart

They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man's inner thoughts cannot be discovered.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to me, for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.

Indeed, they made their heart as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord who rules over all had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord who rules over all had poured out great wrath.

As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person's heart reflects the person.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.

A wise person's heart makes his speech wise and it adds persuasiveness to his words.

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.

"The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart."

For the music director; written by the Lord's servant, David; an oracle. An evil man is rebellious to the core. He does not fear God,

"Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?

Therefore speak to them and say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry.

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'

For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."'

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

"You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!