Jeremiah 17:9
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
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.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Related Verses
“Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.”
“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.”
“And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.”
“How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;”
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;”