'Hearts' in the Bible

But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking, replied, "Why do you have such evil thoughts in your hearts?

"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

This is how my heavenly Father will treat each one of you unless you forgive your brother from your hearts."

Jesus looked around at them in anger, deeply hurt because of their hard hearts. Then he told the man, "Hold out your hand." The man held it out, and his hand was restored to health.

because they didn't understand the significance of the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened?

He is the one who will go before the Lord with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and to prepare the people to be ready for the Lord."

The ones on the path are the people who listen, but then the Devil comes and takes the word away from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

But the ones on the good soil are the people who hear the word but also hold on to it with good and honest hearts, producing a crop through endurance."

So he told them, "You try to justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts, because what is highly valued by people is detestable to God.

So purpose in your hearts not to prepare your defense ahead of time,

"Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise

Then they asked each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?"

"Don't let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.

I'm leaving you at peace. I'm giving you my own peace. I'm not giving it to you as the world gives. So don't let your hearts be troubled, and don't be afraid.

But because I have told you this, sorrow has filled your hearts.

Now you are having pain. But I'll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Then they prayed, "Lord, you know the hearts of all people. Show us which one of these two men you have chosen

United in purpose, they went to the Temple every day, ate at each other's homes, and shared their food with glad and humble hearts.

"You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

yet he has not abandoned his witness: he continues to do good, to give you rain from heaven, to give you fruitful seasons, and to fill you with food and your hearts with joy."

He made no distinction between them and us, because of their faith-cleansed hearts.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another.

They show that what the Law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

Now this hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

But thank God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching with which you were entrusted!

and the one who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, for the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to God's will.

because such people are not serving the Messiah our Lord, but their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Therefore, stop judging prematurely, before the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness and reveal the motives of our hearts. Then each person will receive his praise from God.

Now their experiences serve as examples for us so that we won't set our hearts on evil as they did.

who has placed his seal on us and has given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

You are our letter, written in our hearts and known and read by everyone.

You are demonstrating that you are the Messiah's letter, produced by our service, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Yet even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Jesus the Messiah.

We have spoken frankly to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are wide open.

Do us a favor I ask you as my children and open wide your hearts.

Make room for us in your hearts! We have not treated anyone unjustly, harmed anyone, or cheated anyone.

I am not saying this to condemn you. I told you before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts to cry out, "Abba! Father!"

Then, with the eyes of your hearts enlightened, you will know the confidence that is produced by God having called you, the rich glory that is his inheritance among the saints,

and that the Messiah would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,

Then you will recite to one another psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; you will sing and make music to the Lord with your hearts;

I am sending him to you for this very reason, so that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.

Then God's peace, which goes far beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your hearts and minds in union with the Messiah Jesus.

Because they are united in love, I pray that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of the Messiah, who is the mystery of God.

Let the peace of the Messiah also rule in your hearts, to which you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Let the word of the Messiah inhabit you richly with wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and singing to God with thankfulness in your hearts.

I am sending him to you for this very reason, so that you may know how we are doing and that he may encourage your hearts.

Then your hearts will be strong, blameless, and holy in the presence of God, who is our Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints.

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good action and word.

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of the Messiah.

For I have received considerable joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed, brother, through you.

do not harden your hearts as they did when they provoked me during the time of testing in the wilderness.

even though they had seen my actions for 40 years. That is why I was indignant with that generation and said, "They are always going astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.'

As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as they did when they provoked me."

he again fixes a definite day "Today" - saying long afterward through David, as already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and will write them on their minds,

let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in the full assurance that faith provides, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

But if you have bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop boasting and slandering the truth.

Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

You, too, must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.

Therefore we regard the message of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp that is shining in a gloomy place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

With eyes full of adultery, they cannot get enough of sin. They seduce unsteady souls and have had their hearts expertly trained in greed. They are doomed to a curse.

If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God.

I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will reward each of you as your actions deserve.