Bible Verses About Following Your Heart
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for following your heart, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,809 votes, led by Jeremiah 17:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Following Your Heart
Jeremiah 17:9363 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Proverbs 3:5-7264 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Luke 12:34254 votes
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 15:19196 votes
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Psalms 37:4177 votes
Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Proverbs 28:26141 votes
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Proverbs 4:23139 votes
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Romans 10:10121 votes
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Psalms 73:26100 votes
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Ecclesiastes 11:994 votes
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Luke 6:4581 votes
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Matthew 5:872 votes
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
John 14:2756 votes
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Romans 5:555 votes
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Jeremiah 29:1354 votes
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Luke 21:3448 votes
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Philippians 4:748 votes
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
John 14:146 votes
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Proverbs 15:1345 votes
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Numbers 15:3944 votes
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Colossians 3:2344 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Deuteronomy 6:538 votes
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Proverbs 23:1938 votes
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Jeremiah 17:1-2738 votes
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
Psalms 130:736 votes
Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
What does the Bible say about following your heart?
Readers most often cite Jeremiah 17:9 on the subject of following your heart. Across 3,809 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 3:5-7, Luke 12:34, Matthew 15:19. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.