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What does the Bible say about your heart?

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The Bible teaches that your heart is the inner wellspring of your thoughts, desires, words, and actions, and therefore must be guarded and brought under the rule of God. Proverbs 4:20-23 calls us to treasure God’s words, for from the heart flow the issues of life. Jesus commands wholehearted love for God and genuine love for neighbor in Matthew 22:37-39, while teaching that our speech reveals what fills us within. God’s Word searches and exposes the heart, as Hebrews 4:12 declares. Yet believers are not left to themselves: the Holy Spirit anoints, teaches, convicts, and renews us. In Christ, God calls us from hypocrisy, bitterness, and self-righteous judgment to sincere faith, mercy, and obedient love.

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  • Proverbs 4:20-22

    [20] My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. [21] Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart. [22] For they are life to those who find them, And health to their whole body.

  • Matthew 22:37-39

    [37] Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • 1 John 2:27

    As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

  • Hebrews 4:12

    For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

  • Luke 6:37

    Don't judge, And you won't be judged. Don't condemn, And you won't be condemned. Set free, And you will be set free.

  • Acts 5:3

    But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

  • Proverbs 4:23

    Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.

  • Matthew 12:35

    The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

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