Noun kardia (heart) in the New Testament

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)

Matthew

5: 8"Blessed are the pure in heart (kardia), for they will see God.
5: 28But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart (kardia).
6: 21For where your treasure is, there your heart (kardia) will be also.
9: 4But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts (kardia)?
11: 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart (kardia), and you will find rest for your souls.
12: 34You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart (kardia) the mouth speaks.
12: 40For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart (kardia) of the earth.
13: 15For this people's heart (kardia) has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart (kardia) and turn - and I would heal them.'
13: 19When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart (kardia); this is what was sown on the path.
15: 8'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts (kardia) are far from me;
15: 18But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart (kardia), and this is what defiles.
15: 19For out of the heart (kardia) come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
18: 35So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart (kardia)."
22: 37He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart (kardia), and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
24: 48But if that wicked slave says in his heart (kardia), 'My master is delayed,'

Mark

2: 6Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts (kardia),
2: 8At once Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were discussing these questions among themselves; and he said to them, "Why do you raise such questions in your hearts (kardia)?
3: 5He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart (kardia) and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
6: 52for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts (kardia) were hardened.
7: 6He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts (kardia) are far from me;
7: 19since it enters, not the heart (kardia) but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
7: 21For it is from within, from the human heart (kardia), that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder,
8: 17And becoming aware of it, Jesus said to them, "Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not perceive or understand? Are your hearts (kardia) hardened?
11: 23Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and if you do not doubt in your heart (kardia), but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you.
12: 30you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart (kardia), and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'
12: 33and 'to love him with all the heart (kardia), and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,' and 'to love one's neighbor as oneself,' - this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

Luke

1: 17With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts (kardia) of parents to their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
1: 51He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts (kardia).
1: 66All who heard them put them in their heart (kardia) and said, "What then will this child become?" For, indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.
2: 19But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart (kardia).
2: 35so that the inner thoughts of many hearts (kardia) will be revealed - and a sword will pierce your own soul too."
2: 51Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in her heart (kardia).
3: 15As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts (kardia) concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah,
5: 22When Jesus perceived their questionings, he answered them, "Why do you raise such questions in your hearts (kardia)?
6: 45The good person out of the good treasure of the heart (kardia) produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart (kardia) that the mouth speaks.
8: 12The ones on the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts (kardia), so that they may not believe and be saved.
8: 15But as for that in the good soil, these are the ones who, when they hear the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart (kardia), and bear fruit with patient endurance.
9: 47But Jesus, aware of what was discussed in their hearts (kardia), took a little child and put it by his side,
10: 27He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart (kardia), and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."
12: 34For where your treasure is, there your heart (kardia) will be also.
12: 45But if that slave says in his heart (kardia), 'My master is delayed in coming,' and if he begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
16: 15So he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others; but God knows your hearts (kardia); for what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God.
21: 14So put in your hearts (kardia) not to prepare your defense in advance;
21: 34"Be on guard so that your hearts (kardia) are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,
24: 25Then he said to them, "Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart (kardia) to believe all that the prophets have declared!
24: 32They said to each other, "Were not our hearts (kardia) burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?"
24: 38He said to them, "Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts (kardia)?

John

12: 40"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart (kardia), so that they might not look with their eyes, and understand with their heart (kardia) and turn - and I would heal them."
13: 2The devil had already put it into the heart (kardia) of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper
14: 1"Do not let your hearts (kardia) be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me.
14: 27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts (kardia) be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
16: 6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts (kardia).
16: 22So you have pain now; but I will see you again, and your hearts (kardia) will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

Acts

2: 26therefore my heart (kardia) was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; moreover my flesh will live in hope.
2: 37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart (kardia) and said to Peter and to the other apostles, "Brothers, what should we do?"
2: 46Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts (kardia),
4: 32Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart (kardia) and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.
5: 3"Ananias," Peter asked, "why has Satan filled your heart (kardia) to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land?
5: 4While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, were not the proceeds at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart (kardia)? You did not lie to us but to God!"
7: 23"When he was forty years old, it came into his heart (kardia) to visit his relatives, the Israelites.
7: 39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts (kardia) they turned back to Egypt,
7: 51"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart (kardia) and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.
7: 54When they heard these things, they became enraged in their hearts (kardia) and ground their teeth at Stephen.
8: 21You have no part or share in this, for your heart (kardia) is not right before God.
8: 22Repent therefore of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart (kardia) may be forgiven you.
11: 23When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast heart (kardia);
13: 22When he had removed him, he made David their king. In his testimony about him he said, 'I have found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after my heart (kardia), who will carry out all my wishes.'
14: 17yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing good - giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, and filling you with food and your hearts (kardia) with joy."
15: 9and in cleansing their hearts (kardia) by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.
16: 14A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart (kardia) to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul.
21: 13Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart (kardia)? For I am ready not only to be bound but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."
28: 27For this people's heart (kardia) has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart (kardia) and turn - and I would heal them.'

1 John

3: 19And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts (kardia) before him
3: 20whenever our hearts (kardia) condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts (kardia), and he knows everything.
3: 21Beloved, if our hearts (kardia) do not condemn us, we have boldness before God;

1 Thessalonians

2: 4but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts (kardia).
2: 17As for us, brothers and sisters, when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you - in person, not in heart (kardia) - we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face.
3: 13And may he so strengthen your hearts (kardia) in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

2 Thessalonians

2: 17comfort your hearts (kardia) and strengthen them in every good work and word.
3: 5May the Lord direct your hearts (kardia) to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

Philippians

1: 7It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart (kardia), for all of you share in God's grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
4: 7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts (kardia) and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians

2: 9But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart (kardia) conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him" -
4: 5Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart (kardia). Then each one will receive commendation from God.
7: 37But if someone stands firm in his heart (kardia), being under no necessity but having his own desire under control, and has determined in his own heart (kardia) to keep her as his fiancée, he will do well.
14: 25After the secrets of the unbeliever's heart (kardia) are disclosed, that person will bow down before God and worship him, declaring, "God is really among you."

2 Corinthians

1: 22by putting his seal on us and giving us his Spirit in our hearts (kardia) as a first installment.
2: 4For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart (kardia) and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
3: 2You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts (kardia), to be known and read by all;
3: 3and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts (kardia).
3: 15Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts (kardia);
4: 6For it is the God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts (kardia) to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
5: 12We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast in outward appearance and not in the heart (kardia).
6: 11We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart (kardia) is wide open to you.
7: 3I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts (kardia), to die together and to live together.
8: 16But thanks be to God who put in the heart (kardia) of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have.
9: 7Each of you must give as you have made up your heart (kardia), not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Galatians

4: 6And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts (kardia), crying, "Abba! Father!"

Romans

1: 21for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless heart (kardia) were darkened.
1: 24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts (kardia) to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves,
2: 5But by your hard and impenitent heart (kardia) you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
2: 15They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts (kardia), to which their own conscience also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them
2: 29Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart (kardia) - it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God.
5: 5and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts (kardia) through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
6: 17But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart (kardia) to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted,
8: 27And God, who searches the heart (kardia), knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
9: 2I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart (kardia).
10: 1Brothers and sisters, my heart (kardia)'s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
10: 6But the righteousness that comes from faith says, "Do not say in your heart (kardia), 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down)
10: 8But what does it say? "The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart (kardia)" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);
10: 9because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart (kardia) that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10: 10For one believes with the heart (kardia) and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.
16: 18For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts (kardia) of the simple-minded.

Colossians

2: 2I want their hearts (kardia) to be encouraged and united in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ himself,
3: 15And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts (kardia), to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
3: 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts (kardia) sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.
3: 22Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched and in order to please them, but in a sincerity of heart (kardia), fearing the Lord.
4: 8I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts (kardia);

Ephesians

1: 18so that, with the eyes of your heart (kardia) enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints,
3: 17and that Christ may dwell in your hearts (kardia) through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love.
4: 18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart (kardia).
5: 19as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts (kardia),
6: 5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart (kardia), as you obey Christ;
6: 22I am sending him to you for this very purpose, to let you know how we are, and to encourage your hearts (kardia).

1 Timothy

1: 5But the aim of such instruction is love that comes from a pure heart (kardia), a good conscience, and sincere faith.

2 Timothy

2: 22Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart (kardia).

Hebrews

3: 8do not harden your hearts (kardia) as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness,
3: 10for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their hearts (kardia), and they have not known my ways.'
3: 12Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart (kardia) that turns away from the living God.
3: 15As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts (kardia) as in the rebellion."
4: 7again he sets a certain day - "today" - saying through David much later, in the words already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts (kardia)."
4: 12Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart (kardia).
8: 10This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts (kardia), and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
10: 16"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts (kardia), and I will write them on their minds,"
10: 22let us approach with a true heart (kardia) in full assurance of faith, with our hearts (kardia) sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
13: 9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings; for it is well for the heart (kardia) to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who observe them.

James

1: 26If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts (kardia), their religion is worthless.
3: 14But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts (kardia), do not be boastful and false to the truth.
4: 8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts (kardia), you double-minded.
5: 5You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened your hearts (kardia) in a day of slaughter.
5: 8You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts (kardia), for the coming of the Lord is near.

1 Peter

1: 22Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart (kardia).
3: 4rather, let your adornment be the inner heart (kardia) with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God's sight.
3: 15but in your hearts (kardia) sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you;

2 Peter

1: 19So we have the prophetic message more fully confirmed. You will do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts (kardia).
2: 14They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts (kardia) trained in greed. Accursed children!

Revelation

2: 23and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts (kardia), and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
17: 17For God has put it into their hearts (kardia) to carry out his purpose by agreeing to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled.
18: 7As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in her heart (kardia) she says, 'I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief,'