Bible Verses About Hardened Hearts

“They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.”

“In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

“But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said to Moses.”

“Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?”

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”

“There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.”

“Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.”

“The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.”

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

“For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

“But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.”

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

“But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.”

“But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.”

“But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”

“Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.”

“Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people out so they could go on their way?”

“But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.”

“God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

“Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.”

“When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.”

“Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.”

“And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.”

“As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”

“And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

“And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is also now at work in you who believe.”

“Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

“But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time as well, and he would not let the people go.”

“But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.”

“But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.”

“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.”

“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.”

“He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

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

“When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart — he and his officials.”

“But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.”

“And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly.”

“Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.”

“For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.”

“God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?”

“For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.”

“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.”

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.”

“But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

“Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”

“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”

“Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.”

“Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”