What the Bible Says About...Sample

The Old Heart – 1

The Lord does not look at the things human beings look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart ...

He knows our hearts, for he alone knows every human heart …

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

He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.

I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward everyone according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.

I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is ... (for) one whose heart is corrupt does not prosper …

The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time ...

The LORD ... said in his heart ... every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.

Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Related Verses: 1 Sa 16:7, 1Ki 8:39; Je 17:9, 2 Ch 12:14, Je 17:10, 1Sa 17:28, Pr 17:20, Ge 6:5, Ge 8:21, Pr 18:12

Evening Grace -The New Heart – 1

For this is what the high and exalted One says—he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with those who are contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

I will give you a wise and discerning heart …

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.

I 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.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord.

My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.

Related Verses: Is 57:15, Ez 36:26-27, 1Ki 3:12, De 30:6, Je 24:7, Je 29:11-13, Ho 11:8