God doesn’t see things the way we see them
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1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 95 helpful votes
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.”
Psalm 51:10 ESV / 43 helpful votesCreate in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 42 helpful votesKeep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 33 helpful votesAnd I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Matthew 22:37 ESV / 29 helpful votesAnd he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 29 helpful votesTrust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes“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.”
Matthew 5:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 24 helpful votesThe heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Psalm 26:2 ESV / 23 helpful votesProve me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 21 helpful votesFor 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.
Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 20 helpful votesAs in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
Psalm 37:4 ESV / 19 helpful votesDelight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 34:18 ESV / 18 helpful votesThe Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 17 helpful votesThe 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.”
Psalm 19:14 ESV / 17 helpful votesLet the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 16 helpful votesLet us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Acts 1:24 ESV / 16 helpful votesAnd they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen
Psalm 119:10 ESV / 16 helpful votesWith my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
1 Kings 8:39 ESV / 16 helpful votesThen hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),
1 Samuel 16:1-23 ESV / 16 helpful votesThe Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.” Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?” And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. ...
1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 15 helpful votesThe aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Romans 10:10 ESV / 15 helpful votesFor with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Matthew 6:21 ESV / 15 helpful votesFor where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Ezekiel 11:19 ESV / 15 helpful votesAnd I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Psalm 119:11 ESV / 15 helpful votesI have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 9:1 ESV / 15 helpful votesTo the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.
2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 14 helpful votesEach one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 14 helpful votesA joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 13 helpful votesDo not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
Philippians 4:7 ESV / 13 helpful votesAnd the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Acts 13:22 ESV / 13 helpful votesAnd when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Luke 6:45 ESV / 13 helpful votesThe good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Psalm 119:2 ESV / 13 helpful votesBlessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
Psalm 51:10-12 ESV / 13 helpful votesCreate in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 12 helpful votesSo flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
1 Thessalonians 2:4 ESV / 12 helpful votesBut just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 12 helpful votesBecause, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Luke 16:15 ESV / 12 helpful votesAnd he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Matthew 12:34 ESV / 12 helpful votesYou brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Proverbs 16:2 ESV / 12 helpful votesAll the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 12 helpful votesTrust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votesLet not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
Psalm 31:24 ESV / 12 helpful votesBe strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!
2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 12 helpful votesFor the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”
1 Samuel 15:1-35 ESV / 12 helpful votesAnd Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah. And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley. ...
James 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votesDraw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 11 helpful votesDo not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 14:27 ESV / 11 helpful votesPeace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 11 helpful votesSell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 11 helpful votesBut what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
Proverbs 21:2 ESV / 11 helpful votesEvery way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 10 helpful votesThe revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 9 helpful votesFinally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 9 helpful votesYou will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Psalm 44:21 ESV / 9 helpful votesWould not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Genesis 6:5 ESV / 9 helpful votesThe Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Revelation 2:23 ESV / 8 helpful votesAnd I will strike her children dead. 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.
1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votesDo not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
Hebrews 3:1-12:29 ESV / 8 helpful votesTherefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, ...
Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 8 helpful votesI therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ...
1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 8 helpful votesWho serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
1 Corinthians 9:2 ESV / 8 helpful votesIf to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 8 helpful votesTherefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 8 helpful votesTherefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ...
Acts 28:27 ESV / 8 helpful votesFor this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’
Acts 15:8 ESV / 8 helpful votesAnd God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
Acts 2:38 ESV / 8 helpful votesAnd Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 8:15 ESV / 8 helpful votesYou judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
Mark 11:23 ESV / 8 helpful votesTruly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Mark 11:2 ESV / 8 helpful votesAnd said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.
Mark 7:21 ESV / 8 helpful votesFor from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
Matthew 15:19 ESV / 8 helpful votesFor out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
Matthew 9:4 ESV / 8 helpful votesBut Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Matthew 6:1-21:46 ESV / 8 helpful votes“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...
Matthew 5:1-8:34 ESV / 8 helpful votesSeeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...
Joel 2:13 ESV / 8 helpful votesAnd rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
Joel 2:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Jeremiah 17:2 ESV / 8 helpful votesWhile their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,
Jeremiah 12:3 ESV / 8 helpful votesBut you, O Lord, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 8 helpful votesSet me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.
Song of Solomon 8:2 ESV / 8 helpful votesI would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate.
Ecclesiastes 11:10 ESV / 8 helpful votesRemove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:2 ESV / 8 helpful votesGive a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 8 helpful votesGo, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Proverbs 28:14 ESV / 8 helpful votesBlessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
Proverbs 24:12 ESV / 8 helpful votesIf you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 8 helpful votesMy son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
Proverbs 17:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votesA joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 8 helpful votesHope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 8 helpful votesFrom the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
Proverbs 12:1-25:28 ESV / 8 helpful votesWhoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. ...
Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 8 helpful votesThe wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 8 helpful votesTreasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 4:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votesMy son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
Proverbs 4:1-23:35 ESV / 8 helpful votesHear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...
Proverbs 3:2 ESV / 8 helpful votesFor length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 8 helpful votesMy son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
Psalm 147:3 ESV / 8 helpful votesHe heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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