'Heart' in the Bible

Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.

But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

But straight away Jesus said to them, Take heart; it is I, have no fear.

These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;

And they went out, preaching the need for a change of heart in men.

For they all saw him, and were troubled. But straight away he said to them, Take heart, it is I, have no fear.

And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

Truly I say to you, Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and be put into the sea; and has no doubt in his heart, but has faith that what he says will come about, he will have his desire.

And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.

But Mary kept all these words in her heart, and gave much thought to them.

(And a sword will go through your heart;) so that the secret thoughts of men may come to light.

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth; and did as he was ordered: and his mother kept all these words in her heart.

The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.

And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

And Jesus said, O generation without faith and false in heart, how long will I have to be with you and put up with you? let your son come here.

And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.

For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

So Jesus, deeply troubled in heart, came to the place of the dead. It was a hole in the rock, and a stone was over the opening.

He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,

Truly I say to you, He who takes to his heart anyone whom I send, takes me to his heart; and he who so takes me, takes him who sent me.

Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.

Even the Spirit of true knowledge. That Spirit the world is not able to take to its heart because it sees him not and has no knowledge of him: but you have knowledge of him, because he is ever with you and will be in you.

May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.

He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.

And for this cause my heart was glad and my tongue full of joy, and my flesh will be resting in hope:

And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.

But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.

But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.

You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.

Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.

For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.

Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

And Paul said, John gave a baptism which goes with a change of heart, saying to the people that they were to have faith in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.

Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.

And the night after, the Lord came to his side and said, Be of good heart, for as you have been witnessing for me in Jerusalem, so will you be my witness in Rome.

But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

But now, I say to you, be of good heart, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship.

And so, O men, be of good heart, for I have faith in God that it will be as he said to me.

Then they all took heart and did the same.

And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart.

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:)

But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith of which we are the preachers:

Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:

For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.

But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

The secrets of his heart are made clear; and he will go down on his face and give worship to God, saying that God is truly among you.

For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

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

But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.

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

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;

We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

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

Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide.

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.

But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.

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

Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.

And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;