'Heart' in the Bible

making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Do not let gracious love and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart,

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not depend on your own understanding.

he taught me and told me, "Let your heart fully embrace what I have to say; keep my commandments and live!

Do not let them out of your sight; keep them within your heart.

Above everything else guard your heart, because from it flow the springs of life.

and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!

a heart crafting evil plans, feet running swiftly to wickedness,

by binding them to your heart continuously, fastening them around your neck.

Strap them to your fingers and engrave them on the tablet of your heart.

Understand prudence, you naive people; and gain an understanding heart, you foolish ones.

Deceit is at home in the heart of those who plan evil, but those who promote peace rejoice.

A person's anxiety weighs down his heart, but an appropriate word is encouraging.

Delayed hope makes the heart ill, but fulfilled longing is a tree of life.

The heart knows its own bitterness an outsider cannot share in its joy.

What the wise have to say disseminates knowledge, but it's not in the heart of fools to do so.

A happy heart enlightens the face, but a sad heart reflects a broken spirit.

The entire life of the afflicted seems disastrous, but a good heart feasts continuously.

Bright eyes encourage the heart; good news nourishes the body.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit drains one's strength.

A man's foolishness ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the LORD.

Discipline your son while there is still hope but don't set your heart on his destruction.

The intentions of a person's heart are deep waters, but a discerning person reveals them.

A king's heart is a water stream that the LORD controls; he directs it wherever he pleases.

Every man's lifestyle is proper in his own view, but the LORD weighs the heart.

A child's heart has a tendency to do wrong, but the rod of discipline removes it far away from him.

Pay attention and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my teaching,

for as he thinks within himself, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he'll say to you, but his heart won't be with you.

My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will greatly rejoice.

Give me your heart, my son, and keep your eyes fixed on my ways,

Just as the heavens are high and earth is deep, so the heart of a king is unfathomable.

Taking your coat off when it's cold or pouring vinegar on soda that's what singing songs does to a heavy heart.

A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are.

Though he speaks graciously, don't believe him, for there are seven detestable things in his heart.

Ointments and perfume encourage the heart; in a similar way, a friend's advice is sweet to the soul.

Just as water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the person.

Blessed is the man who always fears the LORD, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into disaster.