Bible Verses About Softening the Heart
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for softening the heart, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,740 votes, led by Ezekiel 36:26. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Softening the Heart
Ezekiel 36:26355 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.
Ezekiel 11:19171 votes
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Jeremiah 24:7122 votes
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah 17:973 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
John 12:39-4059 votes
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
Hebrews 4:1252 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.
Matthew 15:1950 votes
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Psalms 51:1047 votes
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
1 Samuel 6:640 votes
Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
Exodus 7:339 votes
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Romans 9:1839 votes
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Luke 15:738 votes
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Genesis 6:536 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 2:1334 votes
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Acts 16:3131 votes
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Romans 10:929 votes
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Exodus 9:1628 votes
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
1 Corinthians 2:1427 votes
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Genesis 20:626 votes
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Proverbs 4:2326 votes
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Acts 3:1924 votes
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Psalms 19:1422 votes
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
Exodus 10:2021 votes
But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
Matthew 13:1521 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.
Exodus 9:1220 votes
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.
What does the Bible say about softening the heart?
Readers most often cite Ezekiel 36:26 on the subject of softening the heart. Across 1,740 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ezekiel 11:19, Jeremiah 24:7, Jeremiah 17:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.