The Heart
Scripture's picture of the human heart: what God looks at, what comes out of it, and the new heart he promises.
1 Sam 16:7
Read in full chapter →7But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
See also: Psalm 151 1:5, The Greater Holy Assembly (Idra Rabba Qadisha) 44:1128
Prov 4:23
Read in full chapter →23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
See also: Luke 6:45, Matthew 12:34-35
Jer 17:9-10
Read in full chapter →9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
See also: Proverbs 4:23, Mark 7:21-22
10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
See also: 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Chronicles 28:9
Ezek 36:26
Read in full chapter →26A 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.
See also: 2 Corinthians 5:17, Hebrews 8:10
Matt 15:18-19
Read in full chapter →18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
See also: Galatians 5:19, Matthew 12:34
19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
See also: Proverbs 4:23, Jeremiah 17:9