Wicked heart

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• Jeremiah 17:9

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

• Mark 7:21

  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

• Romans 1:21

  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

• Romans 3:10–18

  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. …

• Psalms 118:8

  It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

• Psalms 51:5

  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

• Matthew 12:35

  A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

• 1 John 1:9

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

• Proverbs 4:23

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 1 John 2:27

  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

• James 1:22–25

  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. …

• 2 Timothy 3:2

  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• Isaiah 64:6

  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

• Hebrews 3:12

  Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

• Mark 7:21–23

  For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

• Matthew 7:13–14

  Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

• Genesis 8:21

  And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

• Psalms 51:10

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

• Romans 6:23

  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

• 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.

• Romans 3:23

  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

• 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.

• John 3:20

  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

• James 1:22

  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

• Hebrews 11:6

  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

• Revelation 1:1

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

• James 1:13–15

  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

• Matthew 15:19

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

• Matthew 13:19

  When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

• Proverbs 14:30

  A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

• Jeremiah 17:9–10

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

• Proverbs 17:9

  He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

• 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:

• Micah 2:1

  Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

• Psalms 119:1–176

  ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. …

• Proverbs 26:23

  Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

• Psalms 141:4

  Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

• 1 Peter 2:2

  As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: