Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is more devious than anything else, and it is past healing; who can understand it?
Treated in 23 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Key Teachings of Jonathan Edwards ·
Original Sin cites JEREMIAH 17:9
…6:5 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 Note the second half of that verse, which Edwards found particularly important. Not only…
- Holiness ·
Sin cites Jer. xvii. 9
…heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked,” (Gen. vi. 5; Jer. xvii. 9.) Sin is a disease which pervades and runs through every part of our moral constitution…
- The Key Teachings of Martyn Lloyd-Jones ·
What Is Really Wrong cites JEREMIAH 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 If you want to understand Martyn Lloyd-Jones, begin in a consulting room. A patient comes…
- The Key Teachings of Dwight L. Moody ·
Ruined by the Fall cites JEREMIAH 17:9
…The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 This is not gloom for its own sake. It is the ground of his whole gospel. If the heart…
- The Key Teachings of G. K. Chesterton ·
The Madman and His Reason cites JEREMIAH 17:9
…The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. ROMANS 3:23 Weighing it…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 3 — Every Thing Proceeding from the Corrupt Nature of Man Damnable cites Jer. 17:9
…the heart, when it is described as “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked,” (Jer. 17:9). But as I study brevity, I will be satisfied with a single passage, one, however, in…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The Deity of Jesus Christ cites Jer. 17:9
…Luke 5:22; John 2:24, 25) which knowledge we are distinctly told in 2 Chron. 6:30 and Jer. 17:9, 10, God only possesses, but we are told in so many words in John 16:30 that Jesus knew…
- The Key Teachings of John Calvin ·
A Will in Bondage cites JEREMIAH 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 The second book of the Institutes opens with a warning. There is a kind of…
- Confessions (For Teens) ·
Pears for the Pigs cites Jeremiah 17:9
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” — Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV) When Augustine was sixteen, his schooling stopped for a year. His father, “but a…
- The Key Teachings of Charles G. Finney ·
Depravity and the Will cites Jeremiah 17:9
…wrath (Ephesians 2:3). The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9). For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries…
- The Key Teachings of Amanda Berry Smith ·
Pray Once More cites JEREMIAH 17:9
…The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 This is the first thing she teaches about conversion, and it is not comfortable. The…
- The Key Teachings of Augustine of Hippo ·
The Pear Tree cites JEREMIAH 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 It is one of the oddest things in the Confessions. A bishop of the church, writing his…
- The Key Teachings of Jeanne Guyon ·
The Kingdom Within cites JEREMIAH 17:9
…tangle. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 The inward way must never become a search for the divine in the self, as if our own…
- The Key Teachings of John Owen ·
The Deceit of Indwelling Sin cites JEREMIAH 17:9
…The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 Enmity against God What is the nature of this law? Owen’s answer is stark: it is enmity…
- The Key Teachings of John Bunyan ·
Ignorance and the Good Heart cites JEREMIAH 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 Of all the false pilgrims in the First Part, Ignorance is the one Bunyan follows furthest…
- The Key Teachings of Richard Baxter ·
Self-Examination cites JEREMIAH 17:9
…effort. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? JEREMIAH 17:9 Baxter took the second clause seriously. The heart is not merely corrupt; it is corrupt…
- The Ten Commandments ·
4.5 The Lord's Supper cites Jer 17: 9
…it we may easily have a cheat put upon us. ‘The heart is deceitful above all things.’ Jer 17: 9. Many a man’s heart will tell him he is fit for the Lord’s table. As when Christ asked…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Jer. 17:9
…searcheth the reins and hearts; and I will give unto everyone according to his works.” Jer. 17:9, 10, “I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
The Deceitfulness of the Human Heart cites Jer. 17:9
…heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it?” Jer. 17:9. 1. The most eminent of the ancient Heathens have left us many testimonies of this. It…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Original Sin cites Jer 17:9
…thee?’ Jer 4:14. (2.) Original sin has defiled the heart. The heart is deadly wicked. Jer 17:9. It is a lesser hell. In the heart are legions of lusts, obdurateness, infidelity…
- Old Paths ·
Our Hope! cites Jer. xvii. 9
…heart is deceitful above all things.”—“He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.” (Jer. xvii. 9. Prov. xxviii. 26.)—I have frequently heard dying people say that “they felt quite happy…
- Old Paths ·
The Heart cites Jer. xvii. 9
…true. It says that “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. “(Jer. xvii. 9.) It says that “every imagination of the thoughts of the heart is only evil continually.”…
- Our Daily Walk ·
April cites Jer 17:9-10
…be effected the subsoil has to be turned up, and the thoughts of many hearts revealed (Jer 17:9-10). The Yoke means fellowship. The Divine and the human united in feeding the five…