Top 25 Bible Verses About the Heart (ESV)

7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

19   As in water face reflects face,
    so the heart of man reflects the man.

13   A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
    but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

23   Keep your heart with all vigilance,
    for from it flow the springs of life.

9   The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?

37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

5   Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
    and do not lean on your own understanding.
6   In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.
7   Be not wise in your own eyes;
    fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.

27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

22   A joyful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

4   Delight yourself in the LORD,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

14   Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
    be acceptable in your sight,
    O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.

10   Create in me a clean heart, O God,
    and renew a right spirit within me.

5   Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
    and do not lean on your own understanding.
6   In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

45 The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

2   Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
    but the LORD weighs the heart.

9   The heart is deceitful above all things,
    and desperately sick;
    who can understand it?
10   “I the LORD search the heart
    and test the mind,
  to give every man according to his ways,
    according to the fruit of his deeds.”

19 And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

18   The LORD is near to the brokenhearted
    and saves the crushed in spirit.

7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.