100 Bible Verses about Mans Heart

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 201 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 170 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 137 helpful votes

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.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 135 helpful votes

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.”

Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 132 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “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.”

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 119 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 108 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 107 helpful votes

As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.

Luke 6:45 ESV / 106 helpful votes

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 103 helpful votes

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 98 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 97 helpful votes

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 96 helpful votes

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 94 helpful votes

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 92 helpful votes

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 91 helpful votes

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 88 helpful votes

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Mark 12:30 ESV / 85 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 84 helpful votes

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 84 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

John 14:27 ESV / 81 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 80 helpful votes

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

John 14:1 ESV / 78 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Psalm 26:2 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 70 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Proverbs 21:2 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 64 helpful votes

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Mark 11:23 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 63 helpful votes

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 63 helpful votes

The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 63 helpful votes

May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!

Romans 10:10 ESV / 62 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Psalm 119:7 ESV / 61 helpful votes

I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 60 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Ezekiel 11:19 ESV / 59 helpful votes

And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 58 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Matthew 9:4 ESV / 57 helpful votes

But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 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.

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 55 helpful votes

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.”

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 53 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

Luke 8:15 ESV / 51 helpful votes

As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 51 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 50 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Psalm 24:4 ESV / 48 helpful votes

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 47 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 13:9 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.

Matthew 15:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“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.”

Mark 6:52 ESV / 44 helpful votes

For they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Proverbs 23:19 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Mark 7:21 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Matthew 13:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Romans 1:21 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Ecclesiastes 9:3 ESV / 39 helpful votes

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Proverbs 28:14 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

1 Kings 8:39 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),

Matthew 11:29 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Proverbs 15:13 ESV / 35 helpful votes

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

Mark 7:21-22 ESV / 34 helpful votes

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 34 helpful votes

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes

My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Psalm 27:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

Matthew 6:1-21:46 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Matthew 5:1-8:34 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Joel 2:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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.

Joel 2:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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.

Ecclesiastes 11:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Proverbs 15:1-33 ESV / 30 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. ...

Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 4:20-21 ESV / 30 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

Psalm 119:1-136:26 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Psalm 13:5-6 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Joshua 23:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“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.

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Jeremiah 17:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes

While their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,

Proverbs 3:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 27 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Song of Solomon 8:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate.

Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Psalm 119:10-12 ESV / 26 helpful votes

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your statutes!

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