Proverbs 27:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.”

Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

“Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah.

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man blasphemes.”

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.