13 Bible Verses about The Inward Being

So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day. For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison, because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

You fools! Did not the Creator of the outside make the inside too?

The real Jew is the man who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, a spiritual, not a literal, thing. Such a man receives his praise not from men, but from God.

But give your inmost life as charity, and you will immediately find everything clean.

"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you disguised as sheep but are ravenous wolves underneath.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

But the Master said to him, "You Pharisees clean the outside of cups and dishes, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs! They look well on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead, and all that is unclean.

You blind Pharisee! You must first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may be clean too.

It is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot obtain that Spirit, because it does not see it or recognize it; you recognize it because it stays with you and is within you.

So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day.

yours must be the inner beauty of character, the imperishable attraction of a quiet and gentle spirit, which has great value in the sight of God.