Proverbs 4:23

23Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for afrom it flow bthe springs of life.

Jeremiah 17:10

10 c“I the Lord search the heart
dand test the mind,
Hebrew kidneys

fto give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Matthew 15:19

19For out of the heart come gevil thoughts, hmurder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, islander.

Mark 7:21-22

21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, jmurder, adultery, 22coveting, wickedness, deceit, ksensuality, lenvy, mslander, npride, ofoolishness.

Romans 7:8-9

8But sin, pseizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. qFor apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

James 4:5

5Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit rthat he has made to dwell in us”?
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