'Heart' in the Bible

Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.

Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.

Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.

By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.

A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.

The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.

Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.

Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

He whose heart is clean is dear to the Lord; for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;

Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.

When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:

Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.

A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.

The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.

Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.

And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.

All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.

A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.

Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.

And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.

For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.

My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.

For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.

In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.

And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.

For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.

And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.

The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?

Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.

O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.

Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.

They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!

So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.

For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.

Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?

So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.

For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.

Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;

Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.