“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Jesus Heals a Paralytic

And some people were carrying to him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, child; your sins are forgiven.”

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that moment.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might not look with their eyes, and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them and said, “Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid.”

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles.

For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”

He said to them, “It was because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’