Modern Day Proverb...for modern people

Give Your Heart To God

 

Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Acts 20:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

John 14:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

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

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Romans 8:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

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

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

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

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 40:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

Revelation 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

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

2 Peter 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 6:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. ...