'Heart' in the Bible

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

{To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.} I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.} The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

{A Song or Psalm of David.} O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.