Heart, Character of the Unrenewed

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Proverbs 6:16 OT

  There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

• Proverbs 6:18 OT

  a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

• Proverbs 11:20 OT

  Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

• Ecclesiastes 9:3 OT

  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.

• Genesis 6:5 OT

  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.

• Genesis 8:21 OT

  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. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have…

• Jeremiah 4:14 OT

  Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

• Ecclesiastes 8:11 OT

  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

• Jeremiah 17:9 OT

  The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

• Isaiah 29:13 OT

  The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

• Matthew 15:8 NT

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

• 1 Kings 15:3 OT

  He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

• Acts 8:21 NT

  You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

• 2 Chronicles 12:14 OT

  He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek Yahweh.

• Matthew 12:35 NT

  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.

• Mark 7:21 NT

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

• Romans 1:21 NT

  Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

• Psalms 95:10 OT

  Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

• Deuteronomy 29:18 OT

  lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

• Jeremiah 17:5 OT

  Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

• Romans 2:5 NT

  But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

• Hebrews 3:12 NT

  Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

• Ephesians 4:18 NT

  being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

• Leviticus 26:41 OT

  I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,