NOTE: The weightier matters that
the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of - all deal with the heart!
Weightier Matters
& the Heart
Matthew 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the
other undone.
Luke 11:42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for
ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave
the other undone.
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 Israel; After those days, saith the
LORD, I will put my law in their
inward parts, and write it in their hearts;
and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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 10:22 Let 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.
LOVE
Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with
all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mark 12:33 And to love
him with all the heart, and with all
the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to
love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and
sacrifices.
1Peter 1:22 Seeing 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: