17 Bible Verses about The Inward Being

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

The human spirit is like the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

You fools! Didn't the one who made the outside make the inside as well?

but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit and not by the written code. This person's praise is not from people but from God.

But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.

Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil, and floggings cleanse the innermost being.

"Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

All these evils come from within and defile a person."

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God's sight.