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1. It loves evil
Psalm 95:10
For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways."
Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
2. It is blind
Romans 1:21
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
3. It is unstable
Proverbs 28:14
Blessed is the man who always fears the LORD, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
James 1:6,8
6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
4. It is hard
Ephesians 2:4
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
Ezekial 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Romans 1:21
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Romans 2:5
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.
5. It is deceitful
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Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
6. It is proud
Psalm 101:5
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, him will I put to silence; whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not endure.
Proverbs 18:12
Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
Jeremiah 49:26
Surely, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD Almighty.
7. It is worldly
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
Acts 8:21-22
21 You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
22 Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such a thought in your heart.
8. Is dangerous
John 13:2
The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.
Acts 5:3
Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?
9. Is greedy
Jeremiah 22:17
"But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion."
2 Peter 2:14
With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed--an accursed brood!
10. Is foolish
Proverbs 12:23
A prudent man keeps his knowledge to himself, but the heart of fools blurts out folly.
Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.
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