'Hearts' in the Bible

He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

"'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.

As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

"Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, "He is our brother."

It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may entertain us." They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may have sex with him!"

Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."

Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him the army, whose hearts God had touched.

Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

A messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom."

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)

that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)

After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh -- how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate," says Yahweh.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."

He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord."

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."

As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

"So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"

He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?

They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."