| Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. | Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. |
| Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another. | As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. |
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| The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it? I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings. | The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. |
| When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart. | And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. |
| Do not adorn yourselves outwardly by braiding your hair, and by wearing gold ornaments or fine clothing; rather, let your adornment be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God's sight. | Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. |
| Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. | Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. |
| May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your plans. | Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. |
| 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 does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” | But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. |
| Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. | Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. |
| Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and of people. | Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. |
| For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. | For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. |
| 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.’ | Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. |
| A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. | 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. |
| Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. | Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. |
| A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. | A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. |
| My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you. | My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. |
| Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. | Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. |
| He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds. | He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. |
| The wise of heart will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin. | The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. |
| Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord. | Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. |
| With my whole heart I seek you; do not let me stray from your commandments. | With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. |
| Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. | Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. |
| So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart. | So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. |
| Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. | Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. |
| Happy are those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole heart. | Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. |
