'Heart' in the Bible

Blessed the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

But I say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

for where thy treasure is, there will be also thy heart.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;

Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

For even as Jonas was in the belly of the great fish three days and three nights, thus shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

From every one who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one comes and catches away what was sown in his heart: this is he that is sown by the wayside.

This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;

but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

And he said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.

But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

And looking round upon them with anger, distressed at the hardening of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

for they understood not through the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me.

because it does not enter into his heart but into his belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?

For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

And Jesus knowing it, says to them, Why reason ye because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive nor understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened?

Verily I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be thou taken away and cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe that what he says takes place, whatever he shall say shall come to pass for him.

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

Afterwards as they lay at table he was manifested to the eleven, and reproached them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him risen.

He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty ones in the thought of their heart.

And all who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then will this child be? And the Lord's hand was with him.

But Mary kept all these things in her mind, pondering them in her heart.

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and he was in subjection to them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart.

The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good; and the wicked man out of the wicked, brings forth what is wicked: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

But those by the wayside are those who hear; then comes the devil and takes away the word from their heart that they may not believe and be saved.

But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

And Jesus, seeing the reasoning of their heart, having taken a little child set it by him,

But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.

For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,

And he said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, and as he opened the scriptures to us?

He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.

And during supper, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon, Iscariote, that he should deliver him up,

Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe on God, believe also on me.

I leave peace with you; I give my peace to you: not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it fear.

But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

And ye now therefore have grief; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

Therefore has my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; yea more, my flesh also shall dwell in hope,

And having heard it they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do, brethren?

And every day, being constantly in the temple with one accord, and breaking bread in the house, they received their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldest lie to the Holy Spirit, and put aside for thyself a part of the price of the estate?

While it remained did it not remain to thee? and sold, was it not in thine own power? Why is it that thou hast purposed this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.

But they, when they heard these things, were cut to the heart, and took counsel to kill them.

And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;

O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, ye also.

And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not upright before God.

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and supplicate the Lord, if indeed the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee;

who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;

And having removed him he raised up to them David for king, of whom also bearing witness he said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my will.

And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.

But Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

but he is a Jew who is so inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation.

But the righteousness of faith speaks thus: Do not say in thine heart, Who shall ascend to the heavens? that is, to bring Christ down;

But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart is believed to righteousness; and with the mouth confession made to salvation.

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.

the secrets of his heart are manifested; and thus, falling upon his face, he will do homage to God, reporting that God is indeed amongst you.

For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us, written, not with ink, but the Spirit of the living God; not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of the heart.

But unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their heart.

For we do not again commend ourselves to you, but we are giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have such with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.

Our mouth is opened to you, Corinthians, our heart is expanded.

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

But thanks be to God, who gives the same diligent zeal for you in the heart of Titus.

each according as he is purposed in his heart; not grievingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

but let us not lose heart in doing good; for in due time, if we do not faint, we shall reap.

being enlightened in the eyes of your heart, so that ye should know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and chanting with your heart to the Lord;

Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ;

Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.

But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;

But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;

See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God.

For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.

If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;

but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.

having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;

that if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness towards God,