'Heart' in the Bible

Grace to you and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For if I of all men give you pain, who then is there to gladden my heart, but the very persons to whom I give pain?

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

But whenever the heart of the nation shall have returned to the Lord, the veil will be withdrawn.

Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart,

But having the same spirit of faith, as it is said in the Writings, The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;

Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

but for an answering recompense, (I speak as to children,) let your heart also expand itself.

I have great confidence in you: very loudly do I boast of you. I am filled with comfort: my heart overflows with joy amid all our affliction.

Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

His affection is greater than ever as he remembers the obedience [to his guidance] that all of you exhibited, and how you received him with the greatest respect.

But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

For while he gladly gave ear to our request, he was interested enough to go to you from the impulse of his heart.

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.