softening the heart
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26And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.
19And I will give them one heart. And I will distribute a new spirit to their interior. And I will take away the heart of stone from their body. And I will give them a heart of flesh.
7And I will give them a heart, so that they may know me, that I am the Lord. And they will be my people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to me with their whole heart.
9The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?
39Because of this, they were not able to believe, for Isaiah said again: 40“He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, so that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be converted: and then I would heal them.”
12For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
12Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.
19For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
6Why have you hardened your hearts, just as Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he was struck, did he not then release them, and they went away?
7I say to you, that there will be so much more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, than over the ninety-nine just, who do not need to repent.
3But I will harden his heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
18Therefore, he takes pity on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
5Then God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times,
13For it is God who works in you, both so as to choose, and so as to act, in accord with his good will.
31So they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and then you will be saved, with your household.”