What Does the Bible Say About Heart?

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 82 helpful votes

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 69 helpful votes

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

Ezekiel 11:19 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes

“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 33 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 112:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes

He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Romans 2:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Acts 8:22 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Proverbs 21:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

James 4:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Jeremiah 12:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Psalm 97:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Psalm 51:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Psalm 26:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Hebrews 3:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

1 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.

Ephesians 6:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Proverbs 16:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Colossians 3:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.”

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Hebrews 3:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’

Romans 6:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

Proverbs 11:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the Lord, but those of blameless ways are his delight.

Proverbs 6:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes

With perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Acts 28:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Exodus 4:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

Acts 16:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.

Proverbs 5:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Psalm 10:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

James 1:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that 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 and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

John 12:40 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”

Luke 16:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Mark 16:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.

Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

Proverbs 28:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

Psalm 125:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts!

Psalm 119:145 ESV / 8 helpful votes

With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O Lord! I will keep your statutes.

Psalm 27:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Revelation 2:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

Ephesians 4:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

Acts 9:1-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. ...

Matthew 11:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 10:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

Isaiah 6:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Ecclesiastes 9:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

Proverbs 6:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,

Psalm 95:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”

Psalm 94:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The Lord—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.

Psalm 24:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

Psalm 22:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;

1 Kings 3:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.

1 Kings 2:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

That the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

2 Samuel 7:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God!

Revelation 2:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

Revelation 2:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 3:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

1 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Ephesians 6:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Matthew 23:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

Romans 13:12-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 8:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Acts 15:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

Acts 13:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

Acts 8:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

Acts 2:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

John 13:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

Mark 7:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Matthew 12:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.

Zechariah 10:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

We have heard of the pride of Moab— he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Jeremiah 32:40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.

Jeremiah 20:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Jeremiah 4:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.

Proverbs 22:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

Proverbs 16:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

Proverbs 12:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.

Psalm 22:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live forever!

Job 31:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?

2 Chronicles 30:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness.”

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Romans 2:14-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

Acts 8:36-38 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Acts 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?

Mark 10:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 6:9-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Hosea 13:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.

Hosea 10:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.

Daniel 5:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.

Ezekiel 36:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Ezekiel 25:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord God: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,

Ezekiel 18:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 11:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 3:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.

Ezekiel 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’

Jeremiah 49:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 22:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”

Jeremiah 17:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,

Jeremiah 11:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.

Jeremiah 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

Jeremiah 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.”

Isaiah 66:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,

Isaiah 46:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from righteousness:

Ecclesiastes 8:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Proverbs 24:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.

Proverbs 20:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?

Proverbs 18:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 17:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.

Proverbs 17:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.

Proverbs 15:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed. The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly. All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.

Proverbs 14:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.

Proverbs 12:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

Proverbs 11:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Proverbs 8:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,

Proverbs 7:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.

Psalm 139:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!

Psalm 139:1-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

Psalm 119:161 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

Psalm 119:112 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end.

Psalm 119:69 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;

Psalm 112:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His heart is steady; he will not be afraid, until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.

Psalm 101:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

Psalm 101:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 84:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Psalm 77:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:

Psalm 76:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.

Psalm 73:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Psalm 66:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Psalm 57:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody!

Psalm 44:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Psalm 27:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”

Psalm 27:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

Psalm 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

Psalm 7:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

Psalm 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

Psalm 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Psalm 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Job 23:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;

Job 11:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

Job 9:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

Ezra 7:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,

Ezra 7:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

Ezra 6:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 26:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 25:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You say, ‘See, I have struck down Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

2 Chronicles 19:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asherahs out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

2 Chronicles 17:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the Lord, with 200,000 mighty men of valor.

2 Chronicles 12:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.

1 Chronicles 29:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.

1 Chronicles 29:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

1 Chronicles 12:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Of Zebulun 50,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose.

2 Kings 22:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.

2 Kings 14:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You have indeed struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

1 Kings 8:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

1 Kings 4:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,

1 Kings 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”

1 Samuel 24:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And afterward David's heart struck him, because he had cut off a corner of Saul's robe.

1 Samuel 17:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”

1 Samuel 13:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 10:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 7:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

2 Peter 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

Hebrews 11:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,

1 Corinthians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”

Romans 2:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.

Acts 28:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“‘Go to this people, and say, You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.

Acts 1:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen

Ezekiel 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and he said to me, “Say, Thus says the Lord: So you think, O house of Israel. For I know the things that come into your mind.

Ezekiel 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

200 Bible Verses about Heart