Bible Verses about “the heart of man”
The Bible contains 12 verses about the heart of man across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."”
“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.”
“Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.”
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?”
“covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.”
“For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,”
“All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."”
“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 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.”
“The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.”
“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; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.”
“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.”