softening the heart
Genesis Chapter 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Exodus Chapter 7:3
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel Chapter 6:6
Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
Psalm Chapter 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Jeremiah Chapter 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah Chapter 24:7
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Ezekiel Chapter 11:19
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Ezekiel Chapter 36:26
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Matthew Chapter 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Luke Chapter 15:7
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
John Chapter 12:39
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
John Chapter 12:40
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Romans Chapter 9:18
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Hebrews Chapter 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.