Top 25 Bible Verses About Wicked Heart (ESV)

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

21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

10 as it is written:

  “None is righteous, no, not one;
11     no one understands;
    no one seeks for God.
12   All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
    no one does good,
    not even one.”
13   “Their throat is an open grave;
    they use their tongues to deceive.”
  “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14     “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15   “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16     in their paths are ruin and misery,
17   and the way of peace they have not known.”
18     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

8   It is better to take refuge in the LORD
    than to trust in man.

5   Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
    and in sin did my mother conceive me.

35 The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

27 But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

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

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

6   We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
  We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

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.

21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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.

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

20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.