Scripture
Matthew 5:8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 – “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.“
Proverbs 21:2 – “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.”
John 2:25 – “And needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.”
Hebrews 4:12 – “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10 – “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
1 Samuel 16:7 – “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.'”
Revelation 2:23b – “And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.”
Psalm 51:10 – “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”
Acts 15:8 – “And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,”
Proverbs 3:5 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”