The Heart

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

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

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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

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

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

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

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

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

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

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

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

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

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

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

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

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

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

May He grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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.’This is the first commandment.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

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

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation. — read the full passage →

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)

“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress— I will never be greatly shaken.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you. — read the full passage →

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; — read the full passage →

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. — read the full passage →

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike every living thing, as I have done.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →