Guarding Your Heart

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

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. — read the full passage →

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. — read the full passage →

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. — read the full passage →

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

I 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.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

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

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

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

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? — read the full passage →

I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. — read the full passage →

But 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.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. — read the full passage →

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; — read the full passage →

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: — read the full passage →

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. — read the full passage →

I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

But godliness with contentment is great gain. — read the full passage →

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. — read the full passage →

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. — read the full passage →

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. — read the full passage →

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: — read the full passage →

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: — read the full passage →

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; — read the full passage →

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.

For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.