The Heart in Scripture
The following excerpts from various passages indicate that the soul is the heart and has the three functions of mind, emotion, and will. This kind of study is helpful to see how a word is used in scripture. As you can see a person can think and understand with the heart, he can express sorrow or anguish from the heart or he can make decisions or purpose with the heart. These are all functions of the mind, emotions and will and originate in the heart.
Mind
Gen. 24:45: Before I had finished speaking in my heart
Deut. 15:9: an unworthy thought in your heart
Acts 5:4: contrived this deed in your heart?
Acts 16:14: The Lord opened her heart to pay attention
Acts 28:27: understand with their heart
Rom. 10:6: Do not say in your heart
1 Cor. 2:9: nor the heart of man imagined
1 Cor. 14:25: the secrets of his heart are disclosed
2 Cor. 8:16: But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus
Phil. 1:7: I hold you in my heart
Heb. 4:12: discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Ps. 53:1: The fool says in his heart, "There is no God.”
Ps. 119:11: I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Emotions
Lev. 19:17: You shall not hate your brother in your heart
John 16:6: sorrow has filled your heart.
Acts 2:26: my heart was glad,
Acts 21:13: weeping and breaking my heart?
Rom. 9:2: sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart
Rom. 10:1: my heart's desire
2 Cor. 2:4: anguish of heart
Eph. 3:13: not to lose heart
Eph. 5:19: making melody to the Lord with your heart
Col. 3:22: with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord
1 Peter 3:8: a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Isa. 61:1: he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted
Will
Acts 5:33: why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit
Rom. 6:17: obedient from the heart
1 Cor. 4:5: the purposes of the heart.
2 Cor. 9:7: give as he has decided in his heart
Eph. 6:6: doing the will of God from the heart
Heb. 4:12: discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart
James 1:26: deceives his heart
1 Peter 1:22: love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
Ex. 35:22: a willing heart
Mind, emotions or will
Ps. 51:10: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
51: 17: a broken and contrite heart,
Ex. 7:3: But I will harden Pharaoh's heart,
Ex. 35:5: Whoever is of a generous heart,
Deut. 11:13: serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Jer. 17:9: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Jer. 31:33: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.
Ez. 11:19: And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Joel 2:13: rend your hearts and not your garments.
Matt. 5:8: pure in heart
Matt. 5:28: adultery in the heart
Matt. 6:21: where your treasure is there your heart will be also
Matt. 9:21: take heart
Matt. 11:29: lowly in heart
Matt. 13:15: dull heart
Matt. 13:19: word sown in the heart
Matt. 15:19: evil of all kinds there
Matt. 18:35: forgive from
Matt. 19:8: hardness of
Matt. 22:37: love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Mark 7:6: their heart is far from me;
Mark 7:21: out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts
Mark 11:23: does not doubt in his heart, but believes
Mark 16:14: unbelief and hardness of heart
Luke 2:19: pondering them in her heart.
Luke2:51: treasured up all these things in her heart.
Luke 6:45: out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Luke 8:15: an honest and good heart
Luke 24:35: slow of heart to believe
John 7:38: Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. (This may be speaking of the spirit.)
John 13:2: the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot
Acts 4:32: one heart and soul,
Acts 7:51: uncircumcised in heart
Acts 8:21: your heart is not right before God.
Acts 8:22: the intent of your heart
Rom. 2:5: your hard and impenitent heart
Rom. 10:8: The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart"
Rom. 10:9: believe in your heart
2 Cor. 6:11: our heart is wide open
Eph. 6:5: with a sincere heart
1 Tim. 1:5: love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Heb. 3:10: They always go astray in their heart;
3:12: Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart
Heb. 10:22: let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith
1 John 3:17: yet closes his heart against him
1 John 3:20: whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
Rev. 2:23: I am he who searches mind and heart
The following excerpts from various passages indicate that the soul is the heart and has the three functions of mind, emotion, and will. This kind of study is helpful to see how a word is used in scripture. As you can see a person can think and understand with the heart, he can express sorrow or anguish from the heart or he can make decisions or purpose with the heart. These are all functions of the mind, emotions and will and originate in the heart.
Mind
Gen. 24:45: Before I had finished speaking in my heart
Deut. 15:9: an unworthy thought in your heart
Acts 5:4: contrived this deed in your heart?
Acts 16:14: The Lord opened her heart to pay attention
Acts 28:27: understand with their heart
Rom. 10:6: Do not say in your heart
1 Cor. 2:9: nor the heart of man imagined
1 Cor. 14:25: the secrets of his heart are disclosed
2 Cor. 8:16: But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus
Phil. 1:7: I hold you in my heart
Heb. 4:12: discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Ps. 53:1: The fool says in his heart, "There is no God.”
Ps. 119:11: I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Emotions
Lev. 19:17: You shall not hate your brother in your heart
John 16:6: sorrow has filled your heart.
Acts 2:26: my heart was glad,
Acts 21:13: weeping and breaking my heart?
Rom. 9:2: sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart
Rom. 10:1: my heart's desire
2 Cor. 2:4: anguish of heart
Eph. 3:13: not to lose heart
Eph. 5:19: making melody to the Lord with your heart
Col. 3:22: with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord
1 Peter 3:8: a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Isa. 61:1: he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted
Will
Acts 5:33: why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit
Rom. 6:17: obedient from the heart
1 Cor. 4:5: the purposes of the heart.
2 Cor. 9:7: give as he has decided in his heart
Eph. 6:6: doing the will of God from the heart
Heb. 4:12: discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart
James 1:26: deceives his heart
1 Peter 1:22: love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
Ex. 35:22: a willing heart
Mind, emotions or will
Ps. 51:10: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
51: 17: a broken and contrite heart,
Ex. 7:3: But I will harden Pharaoh's heart,
Ex. 35:5: Whoever is of a generous heart,
Deut. 11:13: serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Jer. 17:9: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Jer. 31:33: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.
Ez. 11:19: And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Joel 2:13: rend your hearts and not your garments.
Matt. 5:8: pure in heart
Matt. 5:28: adultery in the heart
Matt. 6:21: where your treasure is there your heart will be also
Matt. 9:21: take heart
Matt. 11:29: lowly in heart
Matt. 13:15: dull heart
Matt. 13:19: word sown in the heart
Matt. 15:19: evil of all kinds there
Matt. 18:35: forgive from
Matt. 19:8: hardness of
Matt. 22:37: love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Mark 7:6: their heart is far from me;
Mark 7:21: out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts
Mark 11:23: does not doubt in his heart, but believes
Mark 16:14: unbelief and hardness of heart
Luke 2:19: pondering them in her heart.
Luke2:51: treasured up all these things in her heart.
Luke 6:45: out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Luke 8:15: an honest and good heart
Luke 24:35: slow of heart to believe
John 7:38: Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. (This may be speaking of the spirit.)
John 13:2: the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot
Acts 4:32: one heart and soul,
Acts 7:51: uncircumcised in heart
Acts 8:21: your heart is not right before God.
Acts 8:22: the intent of your heart
Rom. 2:5: your hard and impenitent heart
Rom. 10:8: The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart"
Rom. 10:9: believe in your heart
2 Cor. 6:11: our heart is wide open
Eph. 6:5: with a sincere heart
1 Tim. 1:5: love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Heb. 3:10: They always go astray in their heart;
3:12: Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart
Heb. 10:22: let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith
1 John 3:17: yet closes his heart against him
1 John 3:20: whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
Rev. 2:23: I am he who searches mind and heart
