100 Bible Verses about Heart

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 1,866 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 1,798 helpful votes

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

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 1,707 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.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 1,392 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.

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 1,324 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 1,210 helpful votes

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

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 1,185 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 4:12 ESV / 1,114 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.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 1,087 helpful votes

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

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 1,051 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.

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 981 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 926 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.”

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 878 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 21:2 ESV / 871 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 868 helpful votes

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

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 862 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.

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 850 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.”

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 834 helpful votes

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

Ezekiel 11:19 ESV / 825 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,

John 14:27 ESV / 799 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.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 785 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 779 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 688 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 679 helpful votes

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

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 669 helpful votes

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

Psalm 26:2 ESV / 666 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 658 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 119:2 ESV / 656 helpful votes

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

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 650 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.

Mark 11:23 ESV / 642 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.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 639 helpful votes

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

James 4:8 ESV / 634 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.

Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 620 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.”

Romans 12:2 ESV / 618 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.

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 611 helpful votes

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

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 610 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.”

Psalm 27:3 ESV / 605 helpful votes

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

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 586 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 575 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:7 ESV / 574 helpful votes

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

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 569 helpful votes

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 563 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.

John 14:1 ESV / 558 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 557 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.

Luke 6:45 ESV / 553 helpful votes

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 551 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.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 533 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 527 helpful votes

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

Romans 10:10 ESV / 527 helpful votes

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

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 517 helpful votes

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 515 helpful votes

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

Joel 2:13 ESV / 505 helpful votes

And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Psalm 19:8 ESV / 501 helpful votes

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Psalm 86:11 ESV / 500 helpful votes

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 497 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.

Joel 2:12 ESV / 492 helpful votes

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 491 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 11:10 ESV / 488 helpful votes

Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Proverbs 4:20-21 ESV / 486 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 481 helpful votes

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Matthew 5:1-8:34 ESV / 476 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 471 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

Matthew 6:1-21:46 ESV / 470 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 469 helpful votes

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Psalm 119:1-136:26 ESV / 460 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Psalm 13:5-6 ESV / 458 helpful votes

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Mark 12:30 ESV / 453 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Joshua 23:14 ESV / 448 helpful votes

“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.

Psalm 24:4 ESV / 432 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.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 424 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Mark 11:2 ESV / 400 helpful votes

And said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.

Jeremiah 17:2 ESV / 396 helpful votes

While their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,

Song of Solomon 8:2 ESV / 387 helpful votes

I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate.

Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 386 helpful votes

From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

Proverbs 3:2 ESV / 386 helpful votes

For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Psalm 31:2 ESV / 382 helpful votes

Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 380 helpful votes

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Psalm 119:10-12 ESV / 380 helpful votes

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes!

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 371 helpful votes

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

Psalm 51:17 ESV / 370 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 3:1-12:29 ESV / 369 helpful votes

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, ...

Psalm 51:10-12 ESV / 367 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 90:2 ESV / 365 helpful votes

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Psalm 19:2 ESV / 363 helpful votes

Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 351 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—

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 349 helpful votes

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

1 Samuel 16:2 ESV / 347 helpful votes

And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

Psalm 20:3 ESV / 345 helpful votes

May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah

Psalm 9:1-2 ESV / 340 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. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Proverbs 12:2 ESV / 333 helpful votes

A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 326 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.

Psalm 119:111-112 ESV / 325 helpful votes

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart. I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end.

Psalm 27:14 ESV / 325 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 9:2 ESV / 322 helpful votes

If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Romans 1:21 ESV / 313 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.

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 306 helpful votes

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

John 16:33 ESV / 286 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 278 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 271 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.

Ecclesiastes 11:2 ESV / 253 helpful votes

Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.

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