100 Bible Verses about A Clean Heart

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 129 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 92 helpful votes

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

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 78 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...

Psalm 24:4 ESV / 65 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.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 52 helpful votes

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

Psalm 73:1 ESV / 51 helpful votes

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

James 4:8 ESV / 49 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.

Acts 15:9 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 44 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.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 41 helpful votes

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

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 41 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.”

Ezekiel 11:19 ESV / 40 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,

Proverbs 20:9 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 36 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.

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 36 helpful votes

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “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 17:22 ESV / 33 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 32 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,

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 27 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.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

John 14:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Psalm 51:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 24 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.

Jeremiah 4:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 24 helpful votes

As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.

Proverbs 21:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Psalm 51:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

Psalm 24:3-4 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? 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.

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

Ezekiel 36:25-27 ESV / 23 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. 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. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

Jeremiah 32:39 ESV / 23 helpful votes

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 20 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.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 19 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 / 19 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

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

Psalm 26:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

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

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 19 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Acts 2:46 ESV / 18 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,

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

James 1:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 22:32 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”

Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Mark 11:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Matthew 23:25-28 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 15:19-20 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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.”

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Psalm 125:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Revelation 19:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

It was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

1 John 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Titus 1:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes

To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; ...

Romans 6:17 ESV / 16 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,

John 14:27 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 16 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.”

Ezekiel 36:25 ESV / 16 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.

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 16 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.”

Isaiah 1:15-16 ESV / 16 helpful votes

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

Ecclesiastes 9:3 ESV / 16 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 22:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:26 ESV / 16 helpful votes

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Psalm 139:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:111 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

Psalm 112:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Psalm 97:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Psalm 52:1-9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day. Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue. But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah ...

Psalm 51:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 51:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

Psalm 50:1-23 ESV / 16 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” ...

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes

May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!

Psalm 10:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 16 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.

Job 33:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.

Job 15:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes

What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

Job 9:30 ESV / 16 helpful votes

If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

James 1:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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