Heart

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(Seat of the affections)

Renewed

• Deuteronomy 30:6 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
• Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
• Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?
• Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
• Romans 2:29 No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.
• Ephesians 4:23 to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;
• Colossians 3:10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Regenerated

• John 3:3 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
• John 3:7 Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’

Graciously affected of God

• 1 Samuel 10:26 Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.
• 1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire forever in the intentions of the hearts of Your people, and direct their hearts toward You.
• Ezra 6:22 For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.
• Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
• Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
• Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
• Jeremiah 20:9 If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
• Acts 16:14 Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.

Strengthened

• Psalm 27:14 Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
• Psalm 112:8 His heart is assured; he does not fear, until he looks in triumph on his foes.
• 1 Thessalonians 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

Enlightened

• 2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Tested

• 1 Chronicles 29:17 I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
• Psalm 7:9 Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
• Psalm 26:2 Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
• Proverbs 17:3 A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
• Jeremiah 11:20 O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
• Jeremiah 12:3 But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
• Jeremiah 20:12 O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
• 1 Thessalonians 2:4 Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts.
• Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar . He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,
• Revelation 2:2 I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.

It should render to God obedience

• Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Deuteronomy 11:13 So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Deuteronomy 26:16 The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul.
• 1 Kings 2:4 and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
• Psalm 119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
• Ephesians 6:6 And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

Faith

• Psalm 27:3 Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.
• Psalm 112:7 He does not fear bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
• Acts 8:37
• Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
• Romans 10:10 For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.

Trust

• Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

Love

• Matthew 22:37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

Fear

• Psalm 119:161 Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
• Jeremiah 32:40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

Fidelity

• Nehemiah 9:8 You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

Zeal

• 2 Chronicles 17:16 and next to him, Amasiah son of Zichri, the volunteer for the LORD, and with him 200,000 mighty men of valor.
• Jeremiah 20:9 If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

It should seek God

• 2 Chronicles 19:3 However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart on seeking God.”
• 2 Chronicles 30:19 who sets his heart on seeking God — the LORD, the God of his fathers — even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
• Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
• Psalm 10:17 You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
• Psalm 84:2 My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Be joyful

• 1 Samuel 2:1 At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD; my horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.
• Psalm 4:7 You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.
• Psalm 97:11 Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
• Isaiah 65:14 My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
• Zechariah 10:7 Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.

Upright

• Psalm 97:11 Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
• Psalm 125:4 Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart.

Clean

• Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
• Psalm 73:1 A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Pure

• Psalm 24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
• Proverbs 22:11 He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
• Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
• 1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
• 2 Timothy 2:22 Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• James 4:8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• 1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

Sincere

• Luke 8:15 But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
• Acts 2:46 With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
• Ephesians 6:5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
• Colossians 3:22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only to please them while they are watching, but with sincerity of heart and fear of the Lord.
• Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Repentant

• Deuteronomy 30:2 and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
• Psalm 34:18 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
• Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Devout

• 1 Samuel 1:13 Hannah was praying in her heart, and though her lips were moving, her voice could not be heard. So Eli thought she was drunk
• Psalm 4:4 Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
• Psalm 9:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.
• Psalm 27:8 My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
• Psalm 77:6 At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
• Psalm 119:10 With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
• Psalm 119:69 Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
• Psalm 119:145 I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.

Wise

• 1 Kings 3:9 Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
• 1 Kings 3:12 behold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been another like you, nor will there ever be.
• 1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom, exceedingly deep insight, and understanding beyond measure, like the sand on the seashore.
• Job 9:4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
• Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
• Proverbs 10:8 A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.
• Proverbs 11:29 He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
• Proverbs 14:33 Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; even among fools she is known.
• Proverbs 23:15 My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.

Tender

• 1 Samuel 24:5 Afterward, David’s conscience was stricken because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.
• 2 Kings 22:19 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
• Job 23:16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
• Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
• Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

Holy

• Psalm 66:18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
• 1 Peter 3:15 But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect,

Compassionate

• Jeremiah 4:19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
• Lamentations 3:51 My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Lowly

• Matthew 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

The Unregenerate

Is full of iniquity

• Genesis 6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• Genesis 8:21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
• 1 Samuel 17:28 Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart — you have come down to see the battle!”
• Proverbs 6:14 With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
• Proverbs 6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
• Proverbs 11:20 The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.
• Ecclesiastes 8:11 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
• Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
• Jeremiah 4:14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
• Jeremiah 4:18 “Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

Loves evil

• Deuteronomy 29:18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
• Psalm 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
• Jeremiah 17:5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Is a fountain of evil

• Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

See Depravity

Is wayward

• 2 Chronicles 12:14 And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
• Psalm 101:4 A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.
• Proverbs 6:14 With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
• Proverbs 11:20 The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.
• Proverbs 12:8 A man is praised according to his wisdom, but a twisted mind is despised.
• Proverbs 17:20 The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
• Jeremiah 5:23 But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
• Hebrews 3:10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

Blind

• Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
• Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

See BLINDNESS, SPIRITUAL

Is double (duplicity)

• 1 Chronicles 12:33 From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.
• Psalm 12:2 They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
• Hosea 10:2 Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.
• James 1:6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
• James 1:8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
• Proverbs 28:14 Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
• Isaiah 9:9 All the people will know it — Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:
• Isaiah 10:12 So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
• Isaiah 46:12 Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:

See Instability

Is hard

• Psalm 76:5 The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
• Ezekiel 2:4 They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’
• Ezekiel 3:7 But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
• Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
• Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
• Mark 6:52 for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts had been hardened.
• Mark 10:5 But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.
• Mark 16:14 Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
• John 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
• Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

See Impenitence

See Obduracy

Is deceitful

• Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Is proud

See Pride

Is subtle

See Hypocrisy

Is sensual

See Lasciviousness

Is worldly

Is judicially hardened

Is malicious

See Malice

Is impenitent

See Impenitence

Is diabolical

Is covetous

See Covetousness

Is foolish

Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections

Instances of Hardened Hearts

Pharoah

Sihon

King of Canaan

Others

Known to God

Change of

Instances of

Saul

Solomon

Saul of Tarsus

See Regeneration

See Sanctification