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Bible Verses About Hardened Hearts
Find Bible verses about hardened hearts — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about hardened hearts?
The Bible addresses hardened hearts with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
1 Samuel 6:6
“Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?”
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Mark 8:17
“Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?”
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Mark 6:52
“for they hadn't understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.”
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Luke 24:32
“They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?"”
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Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:”
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Philippians 4:7
“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.”
Matthew 18:35
“So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."”
Malachi 4:6
“He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."”
Ecclesiastes 3:11
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.”
2 Corinthians 4:6
“seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 3:15
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:”
1 Chronicles 28:9
“You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If y...”
Zechariah 7:11
“But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.”
Ezekiel 3:7
“But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.”
Luke 1:17
“He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord."”
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Hebrews 3:15 — “while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."...”
Joshua 2:11 — “As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, ...”
Psalms 84:5 — “Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage....”
1 Kings 8:39 — “then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to ...”
Psalms 31:12 — “I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery....”
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