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Bible verses about Heart

Every reference below is drawn from the topical index for “Heart”. Tap any verse to read it in its full chapter.

8The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

29He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

33Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

5And it came to pass afterward, that David’s heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

19Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

18If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

28And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

5Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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