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.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
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.
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.
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:
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.
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; And saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: