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Heart: Unclassified Scriptures Descriptive of the Seat of the Affections

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Deuteronomy 5:29 If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
Deuteronomy 6:5, 6 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. / These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
1 Samuel 16:7 But 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.”
1 Chronicles 28:9 As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
2 Chronicles 12:14 And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
Psalm 22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
Psalm 34:18 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
Psalm 51:10, 17 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. / The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Psalm 57:7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make music.
Psalm 112:7 He does not fear bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
Proverbs 14:30 A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
Proverbs 15:13–15 A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit. / A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly. / All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
Jeremiah 17:1, 9, 10 “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. / The 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.
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Matthew 9:4 But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?
Matthew 12:33 Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.
Matthew 15:18–20 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. / For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. / These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”
Matthew 23:26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
Mark 7:21 For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
Acts 8:22 Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.
Romans 2:5, 14–16 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. / Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. / on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
Hebrews 3:8, 15 do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”