The Testimony of Scripture concerning the existence
of and the importance of:
#5 The Heart & the “Issues of Life” (Bad)
(Operation &
Function of the Heart)
THE HEART CAN:
BREAK
Acts
CONDEMN US
1John
CRY UNTO GOD
Lamentations 2:18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
DEVISE A MAN’S WAY
Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
DIE WITHIN
1Samuel 25:37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
DOUBT
Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
ERR
Psalms 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Hebrews
FAIL
Genesis 42:28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
1Samuel
Luke
are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
FAINT
Genesis 45:26 And
told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the
Deuteronomy 20:3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
Deuteronomy 20:8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Isaiah 1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 51:46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Lamentations
Lamentations
Ezekiel
FEAR
Deuteronomy 5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Isaiah 29:13
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their
mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept
of men: (Substitute
Reverential Trust?)
Isaiah 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Jeremiah
Luke
GRIEVED
1Samuel 1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
Psalms 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
Have JOY CEASE
Lamentations
MAKE A NOISE WITHIN
Jeremiah
MEDITATE
Isaiah 33:18 Thine heart
shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where
is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
MELT
Joshua
Joshua 5:1 And it
came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of
Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea,
heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children
of Israel, until we were passed over, that their
heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of
the children of Israel.
Joshua 7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
Joshua 14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Psalms
Isaiah 13:7
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every
man's heart shall melt: (2Samuel
MOURN
Jeremiah 48:31
Therefore will I howl for
Have NO REST
Ecclesiastes
NOT UNDERSTAND
Job 17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Ephesians
PANT
Psalms 38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Isaiah 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
PRESUME
Esther 7:5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
REPROACH
Job 27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Psalms 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I
found none.
SMOTE
1Samuel 24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had
cut off Saul's skirt.
2Samuel 24:10 And David's
heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David
said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I
beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
Have SORROW
Leviticus 26:16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Nehemiah 2:2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
Psalms 13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
Ecclesiastes
Lamentations 3:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
John 16:6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
Romans 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
SOUND
Jeremiah 48:36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
TREMBLE
Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
1Samuel
1Samuel 28:5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
Job 37:1 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
Have TROUBLES
Psalms 25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Have a VAIL UPON IT
2Corinthians
The Heart & the
“Issues of Life” (Bad)
(Operation &
Function of the Heart)
THE HEART CAN BE:
ANGUISHED
2Corinthians 2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the
love which I have more abundantly unto you.
BITTER
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Jeremiah
Ezekiel 27:31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and
bitter wailing.
James
BROKEN
Psalms 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 109:16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms 147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Jeremiah 23:9
Mine heart within me is broken
because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a
man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of
his holiness. (Job
brought down
Psalms 107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
CIRCUMCISED
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
DESOLATE
Psalms 143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. (Isaiah 49:21)
discourageD
Deuteronomy
Numbers 32:7 And
wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of
Numbers 32:9 For
when they went up unto the
GRIEVED
Genesis 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Deuteronomy
1Samuel 1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
1Samuel
Psalms 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
hasty
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
HEAVY
Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Proverbs 25:20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Proverbs 31:6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Romans 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
HOT
Deuteronomy 19:6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
LIFTED UP
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
2Kings
2Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
2Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his
heart was lifted up:
therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon
Ezekiel 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Ezekiel 28:5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
Ezekiel 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Ezekiel 31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
Daniel
Daniel
MERRY
Judges
Judges 19:6 And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
Judges 19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
Judges 19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
1Samuel 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
2Samuel 13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
1Kings 21:7 And
Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern
the
MOVED OUT OF PLACE
Job 37:1 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
NOT CLEAN
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
NOT RIGHT
Psalms78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Acts
OFFENDED
1Samuel 25:31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
OVERCHARGED
Luke
overwhelmed
Psalms 61:2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalms 143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
PAINED
Psalms 55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Jeremiah
POURED OUT LIKE WATER
Lamentations
PRICKED
Psalms 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
Acts
RAVISHED
Song of Solomon 4:9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
SICK
Nehemiah 2:2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
Proverbs
Isaiah 1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
SMOTE
1Samuel 24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut
off Saul's skirt.
2Samuel 24:10 And David's
heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David
said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I
beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy
servant; for I have done very foolishly.
Psalms 102:4 My heart
is smitten, and withered like
grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
SORROWFUL
Proverbs
Nehemiah 2:2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
TROUBLED
2Kings 6:11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?
Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Daniel
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John
Luke 24:38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
UNSEARCHABLE
Proverbs 25:3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
VEXED
Ecclesiastes
WICKED
Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee
WISE
Job 37:24 Men
do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
WOUNDED
Psalms 109:22
For I am poor and needy, and my heart
is wounded within me.