100 Bible Verses about Soft Heart

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 640 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.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 427 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 416 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.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 397 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 348 helpful votes

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

Ezekiel 11:19 ESV / 347 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,

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 342 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.

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 340 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.

Jeremiah 24:7 ESV / 336 helpful votes

I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 329 helpful votes

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

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 327 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 319 helpful votes

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

1 Samuel 6:6 ESV / 318 helpful votes

Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?

Exodus 9:16 ESV / 318 helpful votes

But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Exodus 7:3 ESV / 318 helpful votes

But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 313 helpful votes

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

Acts 16:31 ESV / 312 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Romans 9:18 ESV / 311 helpful votes

So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

Acts 3:19 ESV / 311 helpful votes

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

John 12:39-40 ESV / 310 helpful votes

Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”

Genesis 20:6 ESV / 309 helpful votes

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

Luke 15:7 ESV / 308 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 308 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 303 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.

John 14:27 ESV / 294 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.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 289 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.”

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 265 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:2 ESV / 253 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.

Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 252 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.”

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 251 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 246 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 11:23 ESV / 246 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.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 246 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 244 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 242 helpful votes

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

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 242 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.”

Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 241 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:7 ESV / 241 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 240 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.

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 240 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.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 235 helpful votes

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

Joel 2:12 ESV / 234 helpful votes

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

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 228 helpful votes

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

John 3:16 ESV / 221 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 218 helpful votes

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

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 216 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 213 helpful votes

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

Mark 6:52 ESV / 212 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 212 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.

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 212 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.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 211 helpful votes

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

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 208 helpful votes

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 206 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 205 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 203 helpful votes

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

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 194 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Joel 2:13 ESV / 193 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.

John 16:33 ESV / 192 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Proverbs 4:20-21 ESV / 186 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.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 183 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 183 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 / 183 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. ...

Romans 8:31 ESV / 182 helpful votes

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Matthew 5:1-8:34 ESV / 182 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. ...

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 182 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 / 182 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 182 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 181 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:1-136:26 ESV / 180 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 86:11 ESV / 180 helpful votes

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

Psalm 27:3 ESV / 178 helpful votes

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

Psalm 19:8 ESV / 177 helpful votes

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Psalm 13:5-6 ESV / 177 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.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 174 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.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 173 helpful votes

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 172 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 171 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Mark 11:2 ESV / 166 helpful votes

And said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.

Psalm 26:2 ESV / 165 helpful votes

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

John 14:6 ESV / 157 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Ecclesiastes 9:2 ESV / 155 helpful votes

It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

1 Samuel 12:1-24:22 ESV / 155 helpful votes

And Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have obeyed your voice in all that you have said to me and have made a king over you. And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day. Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.” They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand.” And he said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.” ...

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 144 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 137 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Joshua 23:14 ESV / 137 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.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 135 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 14:1 ESV / 131 helpful votes

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

John 12:40 ESV / 127 helpful votes

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”

Romans 5:8 ESV / 124 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 15:13 ESV / 124 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 124 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Micah 6:8 ESV / 122 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Psalm 62:1-66:20 ESV / 117 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. ...

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 114 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:10 ESV / 108 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:9 ESV / 105 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.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 101 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Hebrews 3:1-12:29 ESV / 98 helpful votes

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, ...

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