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What Does the Bible Say About Hardened Hearts?

Here are 13 Bible verses about hardened hearts, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Ephesians 4:18

    Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

    BSBThey are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

  2. #2Hebrews 3:8

    Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    BSBdo not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

  3. #3Matthew 13:14-15

    And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

    BSBIn them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

  4. #4Proverbs 28:13-14

    He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

    BSBHe who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

  5. #5Exodus 9:12

    And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.

    BSBBut the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said to Moses.

  6. #6Mark 8:17

    And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?

    BSBAware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?

  7. #7Ezekiel 36:26

    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.

    BSBI will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

  8. #8Jeremiah 17:9

    The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

    BSBThe heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

  9. #9Exodus 7:3

    And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

    BSBBut I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

  10. #10Hebrews 4:12

    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.

    BSBFor the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

  11. #112 Timothy 3:1-4

    This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

    BSBBut understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

  12. #12John 12:48

    He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

    BSBThere is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

  13. #13Psalms 119:9

    ב BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

    BSBHow can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

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