Character of the Unrenewed Heart
66 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
45 sections
- A Treasury of Evil
- Blind
- Carnal
- Covetous
- Darkened
- Deceitful
- Deceived
- Desperately Wicked
- Despiteful
- Divided
- Double
- Elated by Prosperity
- Elated by Sensual Indulgence
- Ensnaring
- Far from God
- Foolish
- Fretful Against the Lord
- Froward
- Full of Evil
- Full of Evil Imaginations
- Full of Vain Thoughts
- Fully Set to do Evil
- Hard
- Hateful to God
- Haughty
- Idolatrous
- Impenitent
- Influenced by the Devil
- Mad
- Mischievous
- Not Perfect with God
- Not Prepared to Seek God
- Often Judicially Hardened
- Often Judicially Stupefied
- Perverse
- Prone to Depart from God
- Prone to Error
- Proud
- Rebellious
- Stiff
- Stony
- Stout
- Studies Destruction
- Unbelieving
- Uncircumcised
A Treasury of Evil
- Matthew 12:35 The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
- Mark 7:21 For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
Blind
- Ephesians 4:18 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.
Carnal
- Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Covetous
- Jeremiah 22:17 “But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- 2 Peter 2:14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
Darkened
- Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
Deceitful
- Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Deceived
- Isaiah 44:20 He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
- James 1:26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
Desperately Wicked
- Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Despiteful
- Ezekiel 25:15 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
Divided
- Hosea 10:2 Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.
Double
- 1 Chronicles 12:33 From Zebulun: 50,000 fit for service, trained for battle with all kinds of weapons of war, who with one purpose were devoted to David.
- Psalm 12:2 They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
Elated by Prosperity
- 2 Chronicles 26:16 But when Uzziah became powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
- Daniel 5:20 But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
Elated by Sensual Indulgence
- Hosea 13:3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
Ensnaring
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Far from God
- Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
- Matthew 15:8 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
Foolish
- Proverbs 12:23 A shrewd man keeps his knowledge to himself, but a foolish heart proclaims its folly.
- Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Fretful Against the Lord
- Proverbs 19:3 A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.
Froward
- Psalm 101:4 A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.
- Proverbs 6:14 With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
- Proverbs 17:20 The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
Full of Evil
- Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
Full of Evil Imaginations
- Genesis 6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
- Genesis 8:21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living …
- Proverbs 6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
Full of Vain Thoughts
- Jeremiah 4:14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
Fully Set to do Evil
- Ecclesiastes 8:11 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
Hard
- Ezekiel 3:7 But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
- Mark 10:5 But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.
- Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Hateful to God
- Proverbs 6:16 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:
- Proverbs 6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
- Proverbs 11:20 The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.
Haughty
- Proverbs 18:12 Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
- Jeremiah 48:29 We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.
Idolatrous
- Ezekiel 14:3–4 “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult with them in any way? …
Impenitent
- Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Influenced by the Devil
- John 13:2 The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
Mad
- Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
Mischievous
- Psalm 28:3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
- Psalm 140:2 who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.
Not Perfect with God
- 1 Kings 15:3 And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
- Acts 8:21 You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
- Proverbs 6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
Not Prepared to Seek God
- 2 Chronicles 12:14 And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
Often Judicially Hardened
- Exodus 4:21 The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
- Joshua 11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Often Judicially Stupefied
- Isaiah 6:10 Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
- Acts 28:26–27 ‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.” …
Perverse
- Proverbs 12:8 A man is praised according to his wisdom, but a twisted mind is despised.
Prone to Depart from God
- Deuteronomy 29:18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- Jeremiah 17:5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
Prone to Error
- Psalm 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
Proud
- Psalm 101:5 Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
- Jeremiah 49:16 The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” …
Rebellious
- Jeremiah 5:23 But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
Stiff
- Ezekiel 2:4 They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’
Stony
- Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
- Ezekiel 36:26 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.
Stout
- Isaiah 10:12 So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
- Isaiah 46:12 Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:
Studies Destruction
- Proverbs 24:2 for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.
Unbelieving
- Hebrews 3:12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
Uncircumcised
- Leviticus 26:41 and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies— and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
- Acts 7:51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.