Heart, The

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• Proverbs 4:23 OT

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

• 1 Chronicles 29:17 OT

  I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly…

• Jeremiah 12:3 OT

  But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

• Psalms 44:21 OT

  won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

• Jeremiah 20:12 OT

  But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

• 1 Chronicles 28:9 OT

  You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you;…

• Jeremiah 17:10 OT

  “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.”

• Psalms 139:2 OT

  You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

• Proverbs 21:2 OT

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

• Proverbs 24:12 OT

  If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

• 1 Samuel 10:26 OT

  Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

• Ezra 6:22 OT

  and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

• Ezra 7:27 OT

  Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

• Proverbs 21:1 OT

  The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

• Jeremiah 20:9 OT

  If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

• Psalms 51:10 OT

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

• Ezekiel 36:26 OT

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

• 1 Chronicles 29:18 OT

  Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

• Proverbs 16:1 OT

  The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

• Acts 16:14 NT

  A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

• 2 Corinthians 4:6 NT

  seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

• Ephesians 1:18 NT

  having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

• Psalms 27:14 OT

  Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

• Psalms 112:8 OT

  His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.