What are some Bible verses about the heart?

Answer  
  

Psalm 51:10  

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

Ezekiel 36:26  

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 4:23  

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

Jeremiah 17:9  

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

Matthew 5:8  

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

Proverbs 3:5\-6  

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 34:18  

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

Jeremiah 17:10  

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.  
  

Hebrews 4:12  

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.  
  

Proverbs 21:2  

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

1 Samuel 16:7  

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  

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,  
  

Matthew 15:18\-20  

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.  
  

James 4:8  

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

Matthew 22:37  

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."  
  

Luke 12:33\-34  

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  

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

Psalm 26:2  

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

John 14:27  

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  

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

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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