Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

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.

Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.

My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart.

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.

Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.

So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed.

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.

Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.

But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)

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

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.”

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

Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.

Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.

“Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.”

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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

I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

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.

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

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.

But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me.

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

I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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.

The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin.

I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

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

I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws.

To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.

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.