Bible Verses About Heart

and you are to love ADONAI your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources.

These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart;

For the leader. A psalm of David: ADONAI, you have probed me, and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I stand up, you discern my inclinations from afar,

you scrutinize my daily activities. You are so familiar with all my ways

that before I speak even a word, ADONAI, you know all about it already.

You have hemmed me in both behind and in front and laid your hand on me.

Such wonderful knowledge is beyond me, far too high for me to reach.

Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

If I climb up to heaven, you are there; if I lie down in Sh'ol, you are there.

If I fly away with the wings of the dawn and land beyond the sea,

even there your hand would lead me, your right hand would hold me fast.

If I say, "Let darkness surround me, let the light around me be night,"

even darkness like this is not too dark for you; rather, night is as clear as day, darkness and light are the same.

A glad heart makes a face happy, but heartache breaks the spirit.

The mind of a person with discernment seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.

For the poor, every day is hard; but the good-hearted have a perpetual feast.

"The heart is more deceitful than anything else and mortally sick. Who can fathom it?

I, ADONAI, search the heart; I test inner motivations; in order to give to everyone what his actions and conduct deserve."

and I will give them unity of heart. "I will put a new spirit among you." I will remove from their bodies the hearts of stone and give them hearts of flesh;

so that they will live by my regulations, obey my rulings and act by them. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

But as for those whose hearts go after the heart of their loathsome things and disgusting practices, I will bring [the consequences of] their ways on their own heads,' says Adonai ELOHIM."

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you; I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

But what comes out of your mouth is actually coming from your heart, and that is what makes a person unclean.