Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.

And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.