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

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

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Prov 4:23

23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

See also: Luke 6:45, Matthew 12:34-35

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Jer 17:9-10

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

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Ezek 36:26

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

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Matt 15:18-19

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

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