19 Bijbelverzen over het bewaken van je hart

The Bible tells people to guard the heart because everything they do flows from it (Proverbs 4:23). Jesus traces speech and sin back to the heart (Luke 6:45; Matthew 15:18-19), Jeremiah 17:9 warns that it deceives, and Philippians 4:7 names the guard: “the peace of God.” Psalm 51:10 asks for a pure heart, and Ezekiel 36:26 promises a new one. In the Bible the heart includes thought as well as feeling. Hebrews 4:12 speaks of “the thoughts and attitudes of…