Psalms 51:6

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’ ” then he says,

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

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

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

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.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

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.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

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

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

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

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

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.

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,