Nature of the evil heart

Deceived heart

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is deceitful, and now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will demolish their altars and destroy their sacred stones.

Hard heart

Ezekiel 3:7

But the house of Israel is not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for the whole house of Israel is hardened and obstinate.

Mark 10:5

“It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied.

Haughty heart

Proverbs 18:12

Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.

Jer 48:29

Covetous heart

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”

2 Peter 2:17

These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

Fretful heart against God

Proverbs 19:3

A man's own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the LORD.

Revolting and rebellious heart

Jeremiah 5:23

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away.

Stony heart

Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 11:19

I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.

Adultery in the heart

Matthew 5:28

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.