Guarding your heart

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• Proverbs 4:23

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

• Philippians 4:6–7

  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

• Romans 12:2

  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.

• Psalms 51:10

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

• Psalms 73:26

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

• 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.

• Proverbs 23:26

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

• Proverbs 3:5–6

  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.

• Colossians 3:5

  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

• 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. …

• Proverbs 7:25

  Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

• Colossians 3:1

  If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

• Matthew 7:6

  Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

• Jeremiah 17:9

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

• Psalms 37:4

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

• Jeremiah 29:13

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

• Galatians 5:24

  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:1–8

  Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: …

• Jeremiah 17:10

  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.

• 1 John 1:8

  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

• 1 John 3:20

  For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

• Proverbs 3:1–8

  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: …

• Philippians 4:7

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

• Genesis 6:5

  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

• John 3:16–17

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

• Romans 3:10

  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

• Matthew 12:34

  O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

• Joshua 1:8

  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

• 1 Samuel 2:9

  He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

• Genesis 12:3

  And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

• Matthew 6:21

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

• 2 Thessalonians 3:3

  But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

• Matthew 22:37

  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

• John 10:10

  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

• Proverbs 4:20

  My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

• Psalms 19:14

  Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

• Matthew 15:18

  But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

• Psalms 119:11

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

• 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.

• Proverbs 27:19

  As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.