The Heart of the Matter

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.  Proverbs 2:1-5


When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

  • To deliver thee from the way of the evil man,
  • To deliver thee from the strange woman

Proverbs 2:10-12a & 16a


My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.  Proverbs 3:1&2


Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.  Proverbs 3:5&6


Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.  For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.  He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.  Proverbs 4:1-4


My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.  Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.  Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.  Proverbs 4:20-23


My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.  

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.  For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:  Proverbs 6:20-23


My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.  Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.  Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.  Proverbs 7:1-3


Do you have heart trouble?

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: Item #4An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations.  Proverbs 6:16&18a

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.  Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths (the ways & paths of the strange woman).

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.  Her house is the way to hell (Sheol*), going down to the chambers of death.  Proverbs 7:24-27

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?  Jeremiah 17:9


Do you need a new heart?

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?  Proverbs 20:10

And I (God) will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:  That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.  Ezekiel 11:19&20

But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.  Romans 2:29

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  2 Corinthians 5:17

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.  Psalm 119:11

…..Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly…..

*Sheol – a place of conscious existence after death.  A place of reward for the righteous and of judgment for the wicked.  See Luke 16.  (Vine’s Expository Dictionary of the New & Old Testament) 

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