Bible Verses About
the Heart
The heart — guarded, searched, and made new.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”
“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.”
“With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.”
“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.”
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Frequently asked
What does the Bible say about the heart?
Scripture speaks to the heart in passages such as Jeremiah 17:9, Psalms 51:10, Proverbs 3:5. For example, Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
What is a well-known Bible verse about the heart?
Jeremiah 17:9 — “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Which Psalm is about the heart?
Psalms 51:10 — “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”