17 Bible Verses about The Inward Being

Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day. For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness, while we look not at things seen, but at things not seen. For things seen are temporal, but things not seen are eternal.

Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou will make me to know wisdom.

The spirit of man is the lamp of LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside?

but he is a Jew in what is hidden, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit not a document, whose praise is not from men but from God.

But give compassion, things that are inside, and behold, all things are clean to you.

Stripes that wound cleanse away evil, and strokes, the innermost parts.

But beware of FALSE prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are predatory wolves.

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full of plunder and unrighteousness.

And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness.

In this way also, ye indeed outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, so that the outside of them may also become clean.

the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it does not see nor know it. But ye know it, because it dwells with you, and will be in you.

All these evil things come from inside, and defile the man.

Therefore we are not discouraged, but even if the outer man of us is perishing, yet the inner man is renewed day by day.

but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible, of the meek and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.