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What Does the Bible Say About The Heart?

Here are 12 Bible verses about the heart, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Proverbs 27:19

    As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

    BSBAs water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.

  2. #2Jeremiah 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?

  3. #31 Samuel 16:7

    But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

    BSBBut the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

  4. #4Matthew 6:21

    For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

    BSBFor where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

  5. #5Proverbs 4:23

    Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

    BSBGuard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.

  6. #6Psalms 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.

  7. #7Jeremiah 17:9-10

    The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

    BSBThe heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

  8. #8Proverbs 15:13

    A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

    BSBA joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.

  9. #9Matthew 22:37

    Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

    BSBJesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

  10. #10John 7:38

    He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

    BSBWhoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

  11. #11Proverbs 3:5-6

    Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

    BSBTrust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

  12. #12Matthew 12:34

    O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

    BSBYou brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).

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