Bible Verses About Guarding Your Heart
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for guarding your heart, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,894 votes, led by Proverbs 4:23. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Guarding Your Heart
Proverbs 4:23669 votes
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Philippians 4:6-7473 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Romans 12:2374 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Psalms 51:10362 votes
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 73:26313 votes
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Luke 6:45262 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.
Proverbs 23:26193 votes
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Colossians 3:5182 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Proverbs 3:5-6175 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 4:1-27161 votes
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Proverbs 7:25150 votes
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Colossians 3:1128 votes
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Matthew 7:6119 votes
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Jeremiah 17:9107 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Psalms 37:4104 votes
Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Jeremiah 29:1394 votes
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-894 votes
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Galatians 5:2489 votes
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Jeremiah 17:1078 votes
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
1 John 1:875 votes
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 3:2066 votes
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Proverbs 3:1-862 votes
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Genesis 6:561 votes
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Philippians 4:759 votes
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:1058 votes
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
What does the Bible say about guarding your heart?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 4:23 on the subject of guarding your heart. Across 6,894 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Philippians 4:6-7, Romans 12:2, Psalms 51:10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.