In Scripture, a hardened heart is one that has become resistant to God's will and truth. The book of Exodus records how Pharaoh's heart was hardened, leading to further judgment, as seen in Exodus 9:12. The New Testament also addresses this condition, with Ephesians 4:18 and Hebrews 3:8 warning against hardness of heart, while Matthew 13:14-15 notes that some people's hearts can become hardened to spiritual truth. Proverbs 28:13-14 cautions that those who conceal their sins will not prosper, highlighting the importance of a soft and repentant heart before God.
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They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy. Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said to Moses.
Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?
But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.