Bible Verse About Changing A Heart Of Stone

Dear friends, How do we change a heart of stone into a heart of flesh? This transformation can only be done through the power of God. On our own, we remain trapped in stubbornness, pride and hardness of heart. But Scripture promises that God can replace our stony, stubborn hearts with soft, tender ones that beat to the rhythm of His love.

This miracle starts when we humble ourselves through repentance. As we confess the sin that has hardened us, God begins circumcising our hearts to make them pliable in His hands. As we choose obedience in small things, He expands our capacity for greater surrender. The more we pursue intimacy with Him, gazing on His glory in Scripture, the more His transforming grace reshapes us into His image.

God also uses loving brothers and sisters to help tenderize our hearts. Their kindness, compassion and forgiveness melt away layers of resentment we’ve built up. As we extend mercy to others, we receive mercy that softens our own hearts. Through the Spirit’s work in community, God accelerates the process of making our hearts whole.

Changing a heart of stone is the work of a lifetime, but God promises completion in our inner transformation. He who began this good work will carry it through to the day of Christ. Our role is to continually yield our hearts to Him, receiving His love and trusting His refining fire. For one day we know that all that remains will be a heart ablaze for God and tender towards others.

Now let’s explore Bible passages about God promising to remove hearts of stone and give hearts that love and follow Him.

Recognizing a Heart of Stone

Ezekiel 36:26
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh”

Jeremiah 17:9
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

Matthew 13:15
“For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them”

Ezekiel 11:19
“And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh”

2 Corinthians 3:3
“Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart”

Hebrews 3:8
“Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness”

Seeking Transformation

Romans 12:2
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God”

Psalm 51:10
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me”

Ezekiel 18:31
“Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?”

2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new”

Galatians 5:22-23
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law”

Philippians 1:6
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ”

God’s Role in Changing Hearts

Philippians 2:13
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure”

Jeremiah 24:7
“And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord : and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart”

Ezekiel 36:27
“And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them”

Deuteronomy 30:6
“And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live”

John 3:3
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”

1 Samuel 10:9
“And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day”

The Power of Faith and Prayer

Mark 11:24
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them”

James 5:16
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much”

Matthew 21:22
“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive”

Luke 17:5
“And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith”

Acts 16:14
“And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul”

1 John 5:14
“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us”

Embracing a New Heart and Spirit

Romans 6:4
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life”

Colossians 3:10
“And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him”

Galatians 2:20
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me”

Ephesians 4:24
“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness”

1 Peter 1:23
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever”

2 Corinthians 4:16
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day”

The Fruits of a Changed Heart

Galatians 5:25
“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit”

James 3:17
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy”

Matthew 7:17
“Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit”

Luke 6:45
“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh”

Psalm 119:11
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee”

Proverbs 4:23
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life”

Perseverance in Maintaining a Transformed Heart

Hebrews 12:1
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us”

James 1:12
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him”

Philippians 4:13
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me”

2 Timothy 1:7
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind”

1 Corinthians 9:24
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain”

Galatians 6:9
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not”