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23Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.
6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. 7And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
12Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.
26My body has failed, and my heart: O God of my heart, and God my portion, into eternity.
45A good man, from the good storehouse of his heart, offers what is good. And an evil man, from the evil storehouse, offers what is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
26My son, offer me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways.
5Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. 6In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.
5Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,
1Listen, sons, to the discipline of a father, and pay attention, so that you may know prudence. 2I will bestow upon you a good gift. Do not relinquish my law. 3For I, too, was the son of my father, tender and an only son in the sight of my mother. 4And he taught me, and he also said: “Let your heart accept my words. Keep my precepts, and you shall live. 5Obtain wisdom, obtain prudence. May you neither forget, nor turn away from, the words of my mouth. 6Do not send her away, and she will guard you. Love her, and she will preserve you.
25Do not let your mind be pulled into her ways. And do not be deceived by her paths.
1Therefore, if you have risen together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
6Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they may trample them under their feet, and then, turning, they may tear you apart.