What Does the Bible Say About Your Heart?

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 43 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

1 John 2:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Luke 6:37 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

Acts 5:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Matthew 12:35 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

John 8:44 ESV / 9 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

1 John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

1 John 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

18 Bible Verses about Your Heart

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 35 helpful votes

1 John 2:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Luke 6:37 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Acts 5:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Matthew 12:35 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 John 4:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

John 8:44 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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18 Bible Verses about Your Heart

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Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 35 helpful votes

1 John 2:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Luke 6:37 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Acts 5:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Matthew 12:35 ESV / 17 helpful votes

1 John 4:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

John 8:44 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes