Bible Verses About Character of the Unrenewed Heart: Far from God
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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.
Verses on Far from God
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.