Bible Verses About Character of the Unrenewed Heart
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A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Every verse, in Bible order
And 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.
And 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.
And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Lest 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;
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Forty 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:
4A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.