Softening the heart

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• Ezekiel 36:26

  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

• 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:

• Jeremiah 24:7

  And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

• Jeremiah 17:9

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

• John 12:39–40

  Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

• Hebrews 4:12

  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

• Psalms 51:10

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

• Matthew 15:19

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

• 1 Samuel 6:6

  Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

• Exodus 7:3

  And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

• Luke 15:7

  I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

• Philippians 2:13

  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

• Romans 9:18

  Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

• 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.

• Acts 16:31

  And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

• Proverbs 4:23

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

• Romans 10:9

  That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

• 1 Corinthians 2:14

  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

• Exodus 9:16

  And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

• Matthew 13:15

  For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

• Genesis 20:6

  And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

• 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.

• Exodus 10:20

  But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

• Ephesians 2:3

  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

• Acts 3:19

  Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

• Matthew 5:22

  But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

• John 14:1

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

• Exodus 9:12

  And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.

• Ephesians 4:18

  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

• Proverbs 3:5

  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

• Hebrews 12:2

  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

• Romans 8:1–39

  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: …

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

• Psalms 119:11

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

• Proverbs 28:14

  Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

• Psalms 73:26

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

• Proverbs 27:19

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

• 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 8:1

  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

• Mark 6:52

  For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.