1457 verses about Heart

But sympathy with her children did not turn away the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ Exodus 20:14

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ Hosea 6:6 for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

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.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ Hosea 6:6 you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

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

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn’t have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’ Isaiah 6:9-10

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’” Isaiah 29:13

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

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

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ Deuteronomy 6:5

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”

But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’” Isaiah 6:9-10

These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ Isaiah 29:13

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods ?”

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

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

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

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.

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.’ Deuteronomy 6:4-5 This is the first commandment.

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.”

As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.”

They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”

He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ 1:17 Malachi 4:6 and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

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.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.