God doesn’t see things the way we see them

God Looks At The Heart

 

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 95 helpful votes  

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 43 helpful votes  

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 42 helpful votes  

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Ezekiel 36:26 ESV / 33 helpful votes  

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 29 helpful votes  

And 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.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 29 helpful votes  

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes  

“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes  

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

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes  

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Psalm 26:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes  

Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes  

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes  

As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes  

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes  

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 17 helpful votes  

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes  

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes  

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Acts 1:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes  

And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes  

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!