Heart, Character of the Unrenewed

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Acts 7:51 NT

  “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

• Proverbs 10:20 OT

  The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

• Isaiah 44:20 OT

  He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

• James 1:26 NT

  If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

• Hosea 10:2 OT

  Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

• 1 Chronicles 12:33 OT

  Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

• Psalms 12:2 OT

  Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

• Ezekiel 3:7 OT

  But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

• Mark 10:5 NT

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

• Proverbs 18:12 OT

  Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

• Jeremiah 48:29 OT

  “We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.

• John 13:2 NT

  During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

• Romans 8:7 NT

  because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

• Jeremiah 22:17 OT

  But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

• 2 Peter 2:14 NT

  having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

• Ezekiel 25:15 OT

  “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;”

• Ecclesiastes 7:26 OT

  I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

• Proverbs 12:23 OT

  A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

• Proverbs 22:15 OT

  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

• Psalms 101:4 OT

  A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

• Proverbs 6:14 OT

  in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

• Proverbs 17:20 OT

  One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

• Proverbs 19:3 OT

  The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 14:3 OT

  “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?