The Heart – God’s
Warnings
(Old Testament)
Deuteronomy 8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget
the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land
of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth
thee a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he
spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known,
and let us serve them;
3 Thou shalt not
hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love
the LORD your God with all your heart
and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 15:7-10 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of
thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart,
nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
8
But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him
sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
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.
10 Thou
shalt surely give him, and thine heart
shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because
that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Deuteronomy 17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king
over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
15 Thou
shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose:
one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set
a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
16 But he
shall not multiply horses to
himself, nor cause the people to return to
17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither
shall he greatly multiply to
himself silver and gold.
18 And it
shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write
him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the
Levites:
19 And it
shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he
may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these
statutes, to do them:
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
Deuteronomy
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if
the thing follow not,
nor come to pass, that is the thing
which the LORD hath not spoken,
but the prophet hath spoken
it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 28:28 The LORD shall smite
thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou servedst
not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
48 Therefore
shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in
hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he
shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have
destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy 29:16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the
17
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver
and gold, which were among them:)
18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or
family, or tribe, whose heart
turneth away this day from the LORD
our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be
among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
19
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace,
though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and
evil;
16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy
God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his
judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless
thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17 But if thine heart
turn away, so that thou
wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and
serve them;
18
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall
surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land,
whither thou passest over
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against
you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
choose life, that both thou
and thy seed may live:
20
That thou mayest love the LORD thy
God, and that thou mayest obey his
voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length
of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
to give them.
Numbers 15:39
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember
all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes,
after which ye use to go a whoring:
40 That ye
may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
Joshua 11:20
For it was of the LORD to harden
their hearts, that they should
come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that
they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD
commanded Moses.
1 Kings 11:1
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of
Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
2
Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye
shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn
away your heart after
their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
3
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his
heart.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old,
that his wives turned
away his heart after other
gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was
the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 11:9
And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned
from the LORD God of
1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve
him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and
understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he
will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
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
Psalms
Psalms 36:1
<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.>> The transgression
of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms 58:2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the
earth.
Psalms 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase,
set not your heart upon them.
Psalms 66:18
If I regard iniquity
in my heart, the Lord will not
hear me:
Psalms 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a
generation that set not
their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with
God.
Psalms 95:8 Harden not your heart,
as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the
wilderness:
Psalms 101:4
A froward
heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
Psalms 101:5
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud
heart will not I suffer.
Psalms 105:25
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his
servants.
Psalms 107:11
Because they rebelled against the
words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
12
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell
down, and there was none to help.
Proverbs 11:20
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright
in their way are his delight.
Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil:
but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Proverbs
Proverbs 15:11
Hell and destruction are before
the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Proverbs 16:5
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination
to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart
of man is haughty,
and before honour is humility.
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right
in his own eyes: but
the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Proverbs 21:4
An high look, and a
proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Proverbs
Proverbs 24:1
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither
desire to be with them.
2 For
their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Proverbs 24:17
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let
not thine heart be
glad when he stumbleth:
Proverbs 28:14
Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs 28:25
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the
LORD shall be made fat.
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets,
and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the
sinner shall be taken by her.
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 9:3 This 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.
Isaiah 44:18
They have not known nor understood: for he
hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Isaiah 44:20
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived
heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor
say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Isaiah 57:17
For the iniquity of his
covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid
me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way
of his heart.
Isaiah
59:13 In transgressing
and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 11:8
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil
heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant,
which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.
Jeremiah 13:10
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk
after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this
girdle, which is good for nothing.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is
deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 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.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
17 They say
still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye
shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No
evil shall come upon you.
Jeremiah
Ezekiel 11:21
But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their
way upon their own heads, saith
the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 13:2
Son of man, prophesy against
the prophets of
3
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 14:3
Son of man, these men have set up
their idols in their heart,
and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before
their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
4 Therefore
speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of
the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of
his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer
him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
5 That I may take the house of
6 Therefore say unto the house of
7 For every
one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth
in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols
in his heart, and putteth
the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face,
and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer
him by myself:
Ezekiel 32:9
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction
among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my
people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their
mouth they shew much love, but their heart
goeth after their covetousness.
Ezekiel 44:9
Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised
in heart, nor uncircumcised in
flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the
children of
Hosea 4:8
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set
their heart on their iniquity.
Hosea
Hosea 7:2
And they consider not in their
hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they
are before my face.
Hosea 13:6
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
Obadiah 1:3
The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of
the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who
shall bring me down to the ground?
Zephaniah 1:12 And
it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles,
and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do
good, neither will he do
evil.
Zechariah
Zechariah 7:12
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former
prophets: therefore came a great wrath
from the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Malachi 2:2 If
ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name,
saith the LORD of hosts, I will even
send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them
already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
The Heart – God’s
Warnings
(New Testament)
Matthew
Matthew 13:15
For this people's heart
is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and
their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and should understand with their
heart, and should be converted,
and I should heal them.
Matthew
Matthew 15:8
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with
their lips; but their heart is
far from me.
Matthew 15:18
But those things which proceed out of the
mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man:
but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Matthew
35 So
likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every
one his brother their trespasses.
Matthew 19:8
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts
suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Mark 7:6 He
answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias
prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me
with their lips, but their heart is
far from me.
Mark 7:21 For from within, out of
the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,
fornications, murders,
22 Thefts,
covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy,
pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and
defile the man.
Mark 10:5
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Mark
Luke 6:45 A
good man out of the good treasure of his heart
bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil
man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil:
for of the abundance of the heart
his mouth speaketh.
Luke 8:12 Those
by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luke
44
Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
45 But and if that servant say in his
heart, My
lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants
and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
46
The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at
an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him
his portion with the unbelievers.
47
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither
did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
48
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten
with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much
required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Luke
Luke
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and
shall be led away captive into all nations: and
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon,
and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the
sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's
hearts failing them for fear, and for looking
after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven
shall be shaken.
27
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great
glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then
look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Luke
Luke 24:25
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets
have spoken:
John
38
That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord,
who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm
of the Lord been revealed?
39
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
40 He 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.
41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and
spake of him.
Acts 5:3 But
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?
4 Whiles it
remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold,
was it not in thine own power? why hast
thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto
men, but unto God.
Acts
Acts
Acts 8:21 Thou
hast neither part nor lot in this matter:
for thy heart is
not right in the
sight of God.
22 Repent
therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Acts 28:27 For
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.
Romans
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in
them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of
the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even
his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because
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.
22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into
an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
beasts, and creeping things.
24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of
their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature
more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did
change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in
their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over
to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents,
31
Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful:
32
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Romans 2:5 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;
Romans
18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by
good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Ephesians 4:18
Having the understanding darkened,
being alienated from the life of God
through the ignorance that is in them, because
of the blindness of
their heart:
Colossians
Hebrews 3:8 Harden not your
hearts, as in the provocation,
in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Hebrews 3:10
Wherefore I was grieved with that
generation, and said, They do alway err
in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in
departing from the living God.
Hebrews
Hebrews 4:7
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a
time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good
thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have
not profited them that have been
occupied therein.
James 1:26 If
any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but
deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
James
14 But
if ye have bitter envying and strife
in your hearts, glory not,
and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not
from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For
where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and
easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and
without hypocrisy.
18
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
James 5:5 Ye
have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye
have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
2Peter
11 Whereas
angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation
against them before the Lord.
12 But
these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of
the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own
corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it
pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast
with you;
14 Having
eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
beguiling unstable souls: an heart
they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
15 Which
have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam
the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was
rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the
madness of the prophet.
17 These are
wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when
they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the
flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who
live in error.
19 While
they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for
of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if
after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of
the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and
overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it
had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than,
after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto
them.
22 But it is
happened unto them according to the true proverb, The
dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her
wallowing in the mire.
The Heart – God’s
Warnings
Weightier Matters
& the Heart
Matthew
Luke
THE LAW
Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts
unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command
your children to observe to do, all the words
of this law.
Jeremiah 31:33 But
this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Romans 2:15
Which 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;)
JUDGEMENT
1Kings 3:9 Give
therefore thy servant an understanding heart
to judge thy people,
that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this
thy so great a people?
Ecclesiastes 8:5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise
man's heart discerneth both time and
judgment.
MERCY
Proverbs 3:3
Let not mercy and truth forsake
thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
FAITH
Romans 10:8
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
Hebrews
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Mark
Mark
1Peter