And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs, and give praise.

And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:

And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.

By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.

And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

And kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them full of joy, by turning the heart of the king of Assyria to them to give them help in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

And Saul went to Gibeah, to his house; and with him went the men of war whose hearts had been touched by God.

The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:

He whose heart is clean is dear to the Lord; for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.

Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.

And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,

And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,

So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul.

Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.

And later, David was full of regret for cutting off Saul's skirt.

For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.

The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

For Hannah's prayer came from her heart, and though her lips were moving she made no sound: so it seemed to Eli that she was overcome with wine.

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,

And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:

Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;

And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.

Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.

And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.

Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.

But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.

Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

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He will have no fear of evil news; his heart is fixed, for his hope is in the Lord.

Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.

So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

His heart is resting safely, he will have no fear, till he sees trouble come on his haters.

The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

And your hearts are turned again to the Lord your God, and you give ear to his word which I give you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul:

The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

Rulers have been cruel to me without cause; but I have the fear of your word in my heart.

And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.

After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war;

And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;

My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.

Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.

Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old. And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim to the north of Mount Gaash.