Bible Verses about “softening the heart”
The Bible contains 16 verses about softening the heart across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”
“The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.”
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.”
“‹I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.›”
“And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
“‹For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:›”
“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.”
“He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.”
“And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:”
“Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,”
“Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy], and whom he will he hardeneth.”
“And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.”
“And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.”
“Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?”