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What Does the Bible Say About Softening the Heart?

Here are 15 Bible verses about Softening the Heart, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Ezekiel 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.

  2. #2Ezekiel 11:19

    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:

    BSBAnd I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,

  3. #3Jeremiah 24:7

    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.

    BSBI will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.

  4. #4Jeremiah 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?

  5. #5John 12:39-40

    Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 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.

    BSBFor this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says: “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

  6. #6Hebrews 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.

  7. #7Psalms 51:10

    Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

    BSBCreate in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

  8. #8Matthew 15:19

    For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

    BSBFor out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

  9. #91 Samuel 6:6

    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?

    BSBWhy harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?

  10. #10Exodus 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,

  11. #11Luke 15:7

    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.

    BSBIn the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.

  12. #12Philippians 2:13

    For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

    BSBFor it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

  13. #13Romans 9:18

    Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

    BSBTherefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

  14. #14Genesis 6:5

    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.

    BSBThen the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

  15. #15Acts 16:31

    And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

    BSBThey replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”

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