'Heart' in the Bible

Blessed [are] the pure in heart, because they will see God.

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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

Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."

[When] anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand [it], the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown on the side of the path.

'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me,

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the person.

For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.

He said to them, "Moses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this.

And he said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

So he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me.

For it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and goes out into the latrine"--[thus] declaring all foods clean.

For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.

Truly I say to you that whoever says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea!' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be [done] for him.

And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.'

And to love him from your whole heart and from your whole understanding and from your whole strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

And later, [while] they were reclining at table, he appeared to the eleven. And he reprimanded their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him [after he] had been raised.

But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering [them] in her heart.

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

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil person out of [his] evil [treasury] brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

and those beside the path are the ones who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they may not believe [and] be saved.

But the [seed] on the good soil--these are the ones who, [after] hearing the word, hold fast to [it] with a noble and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.

"{You take these words to heart}, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men."

And he answered [and] said, "You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

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

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

And [as] a dinner was taking place, [when] the devil had already put into the heart of Judas [son] of Simon Iscariot that he should betray him,

For this [reason] my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced greatly, furthermore also my flesh will live in hope,

Now [when they] heard [this], they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "What should we do, men [and] brothers?"

And every day, devoting themselves [to meeting] with one purpose in the temple [courts] and breaking bread from house [to house], they were eating [their] food with joy and simplicity of heart,

Now the group of those who believed were one heart and soul, and no one said anything of what belonged to him was his own, but all [things] were theirs in common.

But Peter said, "Ananias, for what [reason] has Satan filled your heart, [that] you lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourself [some] of the proceeds of the piece of land?

[When it] remained to you, did it not remain [yours]? And [when it] was sold, was it at your disposal? How [is it] that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people, but to God!"

"But when {he was forty years old}, it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

{You have no} part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.

Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and ask the Lord if perhaps the intent of your heart may be forgiven you!"

And [after] removing him, he raised up David for their king, about whom he also said, testifying, 'I have found David the [son] of Jesse [to be] a man in accordance with my heart, who will carry out all my will.'

And God, who knows the heart, testified to them [by] giving [them] the Holy Spirit, just as he also [did] to us.

And a certain woman {named} Lydia from the city of Thyatira, a merchant dealing in purple cloth who showed reverence for God, was listening. The Lord opened {her} heart to pay attention to what was being said by Paul.

Then Paul replied, "What are you doing weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus!"

For the heart of this people has become dull, and with [their] ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, lest they see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their] heart, and turn, and I would heal them." '

But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

But the Jew {is one inwardly}, and circumcision [is] of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter, whose praise [is] not from people but from God.

But thanks [be] to God that you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted,

that my grief is great and [there is] constant distress in my heart.

Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them [is] for [their] salvation.

But the righteousness from faith speaks like this: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down),

But what does it say? "The word is near to you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim),

that if you confess with your mouth "Jesus [is] Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation.

But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him."

But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has authority concerning his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.

the secret things of his heart become evident, and so, falling on [his] face, he will worship God, proclaiming, "God is truly among you!"

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.

But until today, whenever Moses is read aloud, a veil lies upon their heart,

Because of this, [since we] have this ministry, just as we have been shown mercy, we do not lose heart,

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner [person] is being renewed day after day.

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to boast about us, in order that you may have [an answer] for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

{We have spoken freely and openly} to you, Corinthians; our heart is open wide.

But thanks [be] to God, who has put in the heart of Titus the same devotion {on your behalf},

Each one [should give] as he has decided in his heart, not {reluctantly} or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing praise in your heart to the Lord,

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, [since] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me.

Slaves, obey your {human} masters in everything, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

But [when] we were made orphans by separation from you, brothers, for {a short time} (in face, not in heart), [we were] even more eager with great desire to see your face,

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,

But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

whom I have sent back to you himself, that is, my heart,

Yes, brother, I ought to have some benefit of you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

[for] forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.'

Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, [with the result that you] fall away from the living God.

For the word of God [is] living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, both joints and marrow, and able to judge the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled [clean] from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

If anyone thinks he is religious, [although he] does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion [is] worthless.

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,

but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable [quality] of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God.

But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother {in need} and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?

By this we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him,

that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all [things].

Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn [us], we have confidence before God,

As much as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, give to her so much torment and mourning, because in her heart she said, 'I sit as a queen, and am not a widow, and I will never see mourning!'