Genesis 6:5

5 aThe Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every bintention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Psalms 66:18

18If I had ccherished iniquity in my heart,
dthe Lord would not have listened.

Jeremiah 4:14

14O Jerusalem, ewash your heart from evil,
that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
lodge within you?

Zechariah 8:17

17 fdo not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and glove no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord.”

Matthew 15:18-19

18But hwhat comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19For out of the heart come ievil thoughts, jmurder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, kslander.

Matthew 23:25-26

25 lWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For myou clean the outside of nthe cup and the plate, but inside they are full of ogreed and self-indulgence. 26You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of pthe cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

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