Proverbs 4:23
4:23 Guard your heart with all vigilance,
for from it are the sources of life.
Jeremiah 17:10
17:10 I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds.
I examine people’s hearts.
I deal with each person according to how he has behaved.
I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.
Matthew 15:19
15:19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Mark 7:21-22
7:21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
7:22 adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
Romans 7:8-9
7:8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires.
For apart from the law, sin is dead.
7:9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
James 4:5
4:5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,
“The spirit that God
caused
to live within us has an envious yearning”?