Following your heart

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• Jeremiah 17:9

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

• Proverbs 3:5–7

  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

• Luke 12:34

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

• Matthew 15:19

  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

• Psalms 37:4

  Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

• Proverbs 28:26

  He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

• Proverbs 4:23

  Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

• Romans 10:10

  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

• Psalms 73:26

  My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

• Ecclesiastes 11:9

  Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

• 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.

• Matthew 5:8

  Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

• Jeremiah 29:13

  And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

• John 14:27

  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

• Romans 5:5

  And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

• Luke 21:34

  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

• Philippians 4:7

  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

• John 14:1

  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

• Colossians 3:23

  And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

• Proverbs 15:13

  A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

• 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:

• Deuteronomy 6:5

  And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

• Jeremiah 17:1–27

  The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. …

• Proverbs 23:19

  Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

• Psalms 130:7

  Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

• Ezekiel 11:19

  And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

• Isaiah 1:1–31

  The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. …

• 2 Corinthians 9:7

  Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

• Psalms 119:11

  Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

• Psalms 51:10

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

• Romans 12:1–2

  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

• Proverbs 17:19–22

  He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction. He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy. …

• Proverbs 23:26

  My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

• Proverbs 19:21

  There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

• Proverbs 19:3

  The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

• Proverbs 3:1–35

  My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: …

• Proverbs 4:1–27

  Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. …

• Ecclesiastes 10:2

  A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

• James 1:11

  For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

• Job 38:1–41

  Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. …