Hardened Hearts

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

…do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said to Moses.

Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.