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It is important to interpret Bible verses in their Scriptural context. Many people rip Scripture passages out of their context and misinterpret them.
This list of Bible verses about the Heart is meant to be a starting place for learning more about this topic. Make sure you do not use these Bible verses inappropriately—check to make sure the verses actually mean what you think they mean.
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23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
View on BibleGateway10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
View on BibleGateway9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 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."
View on BibleGateway13 You will seek me and find me. When you seek me with all your heart,
View on BibleGateway7 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."
View on BibleGateway19 As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
View on BibleGateway3 Do not let your adorning be external--the braiding of hair, the wearing of gold, or the putting on of clothing-- 4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
View on BibleGateway5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
View on BibleGateway3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
View on BibleGateway37 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.
View on BibleGateway4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
View on BibleGateway7 Each one must give as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
View on BibleGateway22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
View on BibleGateway8 The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
View on BibleGateway1 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
View on BibleGateway24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!
View on BibleGateway10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
View on BibleGateway12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
View on BibleGateway14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
View on BibleGateway2 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
View on BibleGateway7 I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
View on BibleGateway5 Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
View on BibleGateway111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
View on BibleGateway23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
View on BibleGateway12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
View on BibleGateway26 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.
View on BibleGateway7 Go, eat your bread in joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
View on BibleGateway25 Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
View on BibleGateway6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.
View on BibleGateway13 and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
View on BibleGateway5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 6 I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
View on BibleGateway5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
View on BibleGateway1 I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
View on BibleGateway10 Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
View on BibleGateway11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
View on BibleGateway12 "Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
View on BibleGateway20 My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
View on BibleGateway12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
View on BibleGateway36 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!
View on BibleGateway14 "And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.
View on BibleGateway10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
View on BibleGateway4 Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
View on BibleGateway24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!
View on BibleGateway10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
View on BibleGateway14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
View on BibleGateway2 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
View on BibleGateway7 I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
View on BibleGateway11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
View on BibleGateway111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
View on BibleGateway6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.
View on BibleGateway5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 6 I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
View on BibleGateway1 I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
View on BibleGateway5 Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
View on BibleGateway14 "And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.
View on BibleGateway7 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."
View on BibleGateway5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
View on BibleGateway3 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
View on BibleGateway1 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
View on BibleGateway23 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
View on BibleGateway20 My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
View on BibleGateway8 The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
View on BibleGateway25 Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
View on BibleGateway12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
View on BibleGateway22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
View on BibleGateway19 As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
View on BibleGateway7 Go, eat your bread in joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
View on BibleGateway10 Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
View on BibleGateway9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 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."
View on BibleGateway13 You will seek me and find me. When you seek me with all your heart,
View on BibleGateway26 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.
View on BibleGateway12 "Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
View on BibleGateway13 and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
View on BibleGateway37 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.
View on BibleGateway23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
View on BibleGateway5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
View on BibleGateway7 Each one must give as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
View on BibleGateway12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
View on BibleGateway3 Do not let your adorning be external--the braiding of hair, the wearing of gold, or the putting on of clothing-- 4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
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