5016 heart, fallen and redeemed
Dictionary of Bible Themes

The inner thoughts and feelings of an unregenerate person are opposed to God, making that person reject God and his love. At conversion the renewing work of the Holy Spirit transforms the human heart, enabling it to love and obey God.

Psalms 14:1

The unregenerate heart

Hostile to God

See also

1 Kings 15:3

pp Ps 53:1

2 Chronicles 12:14
Proverbs 19:3
John 5:42
Acts 8:21-22
Romans 1:31; 8:7
Hebrews 3:12
Jeremiah 18:12

Hardened against God

Exodus 4:21; 7:3,14,22-23; 8:15,32; 14:8
Deuteronomy 2:30

Pharaoh's hard heart:

Isaiah 6:10; 42:25
Jeremiah 16:12
Daniel 5:20
Matthew 13:15
Acts 28:27
Romans 2:5
Revelation 16:9,11
Ephesians 4:18

See also

Spiritually ignorant

2 Samuel 6:16
Romans 1:21
2 Corinthians 3:15; 4:4

pp 1Ch 15:29

Psalms 73:7

See also

Proud

Proverbs 18:12; 21:4
Jeremiah 48:29; 49:16
Ezekiel 28:2,17
Obadiah 1:3
Revelation 18:7
Jeremiah 17:9

See also

Deceitful

Job 31:33-34
Psalms 5:9; 28:3; 62:4
Proverbs 6:14; 23:7; 24:12; 26:23-25
Isaiah 44:20
Jeremiah 22:17
2 Timothy 3:13
Genesis 6:5

See also

Sinful

Job 36:13
Psalms 10:3; 41:6; 55:21
Proverbs 6:18; 20:9
Isaiah 1:5
Matthew 9:4
Matthew 15:18-19

pp Mk 2:8

pp Lk 5:22

Proverbs 11:20

pp Mk 7:20-23

See also

Condemned

Psalms 101:4-5
Proverbs 16:5; 17:20
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Isaiah 10:12
Jeremiah 17:10
Ezekiel 25:6-7
Romans 1:24
John 16:8

Conversion: the changed heart

See also

Convinced of need

Jeremiah 29:12-14
Acts 2:37; 16:30
Romans 7:7
1 Corinthians 14:25
Ezekiel 36:25-27

See also

Changed by the Holy Spirit

Jeremiah 4:14; 24:7
Ezekiel 11:19; 18:31
John 3:5-6
Romans 2:29
Titus 3:4-5
2 Corinthians 4:6

See also

Given faith

Acts 5:31-32; 15:9; 16:14-15
Romans 10:8-10
Ephesians 2:8
1 Samuel 10:9

Spurious conversion

See also

A less-than-saving change

Matthew 13:5-6
Matthew 13:20-21

pp Mk 4:5-6

pp Lk 8:6

Hebrews 6:4-8; 10:26-29

pp Mk 4:16-17

See also

pp Lk 8:13

3230 Holy Spirit & regeneration
3248 Holy Spirit, conviction
3284 Holy Spirit, resisting
5799 bitterness
6026 sin, judgment on
6178 hardness of heart
6185 imagination, desires
6626 conversion
8020 faith
8777 lust
8802 pride
8834 unbelief
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