100 Bible Verses about Hearts (KJV)

Here are 100 Bible verses about Hearts, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Psalm 51:10 KJV

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

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Ezekiel 36:26 KJV

²⁶A 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.

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Matthew 5:8 KJV

⁸Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

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Jeremiah 17:10 KJV

¹⁰I 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.

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Romans 2:5 KJV

⁵But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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Acts 8:22 KJV

²²Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

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Ezekiel 11:19 KJV

¹⁹And 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:

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Psalm 51:17 KJV

¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

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Romans 1:21 KJV

²¹Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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Jeremiah 12:3 KJV

³But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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Proverbs 16:1 KJV

¹The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

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Psalm 34:18 KJV

¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

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1 Timothy 1:5 KJV

⁵Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

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Proverbs 11:20 KJV

²⁰They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

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Proverbs 6:14 KJV

¹⁴Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

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1 Peter 3:15 KJV

¹⁵But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

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James 4:8 KJV

⁸Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

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Psalm 97:11 KJV

¹¹Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

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2 Timothy 2:22 KJV

²²Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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Matthew 12:34 KJV

³⁴O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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Ecclesiastes 9:3 KJV

³This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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Psalm 112:7 KJV

⁷He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.

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1 Kings 3:12 KJV

¹²Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

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Exodus 4:21 KJV

²¹And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

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Revelation 2:10 KJV

¹⁰Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

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Revelation 2:2 KJV

²I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

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Hebrews 10:22 KJV

²²Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

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Ephesians 6:6 KJV

⁶Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

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Ephesians 4:23 KJV

²³And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

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Hebrews 11:17 KJV

¹⁷By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

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Colossians 3:10 KJV

¹⁰And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

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Ephesians 4:32 KJV

³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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Romans 10:10 KJV

¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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Romans 8:27 KJV

²⁷And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

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Romans 8:7 KJV

⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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Proverbs 18:12 KJV

¹²Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

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2 Peter 2:14 KJV

¹⁴Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

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1 Peter 1:22 KJV

²²Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

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James 1:8 KJV

⁸A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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James 1:6 KJV

⁶But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

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Hebrews 4:12 KJV

¹²For 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.

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Hebrews 3:15 KJV

¹⁵While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

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Hebrews 3:10 KJV

¹⁰Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

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Hebrews 3:8 KJV

⁸Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

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1 Thessalonians 3:13 KJV

¹³To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

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Colossians 3:22 KJV

²²Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;

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Ephesians 6:5 KJV

⁵Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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Ephesians 4:18 KJV

¹⁸Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

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2 Corinthians 4:6 KJV

⁶For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

¹⁹What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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1 Corinthians 3:20 KJV

²⁰And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

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Acts 28:27 KJV

²⁷For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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John 14:1-4 KJV

¹Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. ²In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. ⁴And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

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John 3:3 KJV

³Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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Luke 16:15 KJV

¹⁵And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

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Luke 8:15 KJV

¹⁵But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

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Ezekiel 11:19-21 KJV

¹⁹And 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: ²⁰That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. ²¹But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I …

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Jeremiah 17:5 KJV

⁵Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

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1 Thessalonians 2:4 KJV

⁴But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

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Romans 6:17 KJV

¹⁷But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

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Romans 2:29 KJV

²⁹But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

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Romans 2:14-16 KJV

¹⁴For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: ¹⁵Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) ¹⁶In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ …

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Acts 28:26 KJV

²⁶Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

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Acts 16:14 KJV

¹⁴And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.

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Acts 15:8 KJV

⁸And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

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Acts 9:1-18 KJV

¹And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, ²And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. ³And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: …

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Acts 8:36-38 KJV

³⁶And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? ³⁷And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. ³⁸And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the …

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Acts 5:3 KJV

³But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

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Acts 2:46 KJV

⁴⁶And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

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Acts 1:24 KJV

²⁴And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

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John 13:2 KJV

²And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;

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John 12:40 KJV

⁴⁰He 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.

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John 3:7 KJV

⁷Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

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Mark 16:14 KJV

¹⁴Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

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Mark 10:5 KJV

⁵And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

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Matthew 23:26 KJV

²⁶Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

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Matthew 22:37 KJV

³⁷Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

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Matthew 12:33 KJV

³³Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

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Matthew 11:29 KJV

²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

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Matthew 9:4 KJV

⁴And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

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Zechariah 10:7 KJV

⁷And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.

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Hosea 13:6 KJV

⁶According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

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Hosea 10:2 KJV

²Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

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Daniel 5:20 KJV

²⁰But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

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Ezekiel 36:25 KJV

²⁵Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

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Ezekiel 25:15 KJV

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord God; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;

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Ezekiel 18:31 KJV

³¹Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

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Ezekiel 11:5 KJV

⁵And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

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Ezekiel 6:9 KJV

⁹And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

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Ezekiel 3:7 KJV

⁷But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

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Ezekiel 2:4 KJV

⁴For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God.

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Lamentations 3:51 KJV

⁵¹Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

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Jeremiah 49:16 KJV

¹⁶Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 48:29 KJV

²⁹We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

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Jeremiah 32:40 KJV

⁴⁰And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

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Jeremiah 22:17 KJV

¹⁷But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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Jeremiah 20:12 KJV

¹²But, O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

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Jeremiah 20:9 KJV

⁹Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

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Jeremiah 17:9 KJV

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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Jeremiah 17:1 KJV

¹The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

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