Bible Verses About Softening the Heart

“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.”

“I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.”

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

“For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says: “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.”

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

“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?”

“I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.”

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

“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.”

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

“They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”

“The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

“But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

“Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.”

“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.’

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

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

“All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.”

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

“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.”

“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

“But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

“I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.”

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

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

“As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.”

“Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

“But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.”

“A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.”

“For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.”

“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.”

“The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

“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.”

“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

“Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.”

“A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.”