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 living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.”
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?”
“For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.”
“Yahweh 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 tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.”
“They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."”
“For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.”
“I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.”
“"He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them."”
“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 a heart of flesh;”
“For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,”
“So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.”
“I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.”
“I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.”
“Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?”