Heart imagery uses the heart to speak of the inner person: thoughts, loves, desires, will, faith, deception, renewal, and covenant loyalty.
Heart imagery uses the heart to speak of the inner person: thoughts, loves, desires, will, faith, deception, renewal, and covenant loyalty.
A biblical inner-person motif in which the heart represents the center of thought, affection, volition, faith, moral orientation, covenant loyalty, and spiritual renewal.
These examples show how Heart Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
Heart imagery locates human corruption in the inner thought and desire life.
love the LORD thy God with all thine heart
Heart imagery calls for undivided covenant love from the whole inner person.
the LORD looketh on the heart
Heart imagery contrasts outward appearance with the inner person known by God.
create in me a clean heart
A clean heart represents inward renewal and moral cleansing before God.
keep thy heart with all diligence
Heart imagery presents the inner life as the source from which the issues of life flow.
the heart is deceitful above all things
Heart imagery diagnoses the depth of fallen inward deception.
a new heart also will I give you
New-heart imagery describes covenant renewal by God’s transforming grace.
blessed are the pure in heart
Purity of heart describes inward integrity before God, not merely external religion.
did not our heart burn within us
Burning-heart imagery describes inward response as the risen Christ opens the Scriptures.
with the heart man believeth
Heart imagery locates saving trust in the inner person, expressed in confession.
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