Bible Verses About Hardened Hearts
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for hardened hearts, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,568 votes, led by Ephesians 4:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Hardened Hearts
Ephesians 4:18403 votes
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Hebrews 3:8282 votes
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Matthew 13:14-15279 votes
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Proverbs 28:13-14276 votes
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Exodus 9:12178 votes
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.
Mark 8:17169 votes
And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
Jeremiah 17:9146 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Exodus 7:3145 votes
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 36:26144 votes
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Hebrews 4:12124 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
John 12:48109 votes
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
2 Timothy 3:1-4108 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
Psalms 119:9100 votes
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Romans 9:1887 votes
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Exodus 4:2182 votes
And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
Psalms 51:1073 votes
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Matthew 13:1570 votes
For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
John 12:4070 votes
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
1 John 3:970 votes
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
John 14:2666 votes
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Mark 6:5263 votes
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
Hebrews 3:1263 votes
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Hebrews 3:1363 votes
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Genesis 6:558 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.
Romans 2:556 votes
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
What does the Bible say about hardened hearts?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 4:18 on the subject of hardened hearts. Across 5,568 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 3:8, Matthew 13:14-15, Proverbs 28:13-14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.