What some may have missed is how the Bible uses that verse to describe an unregenerate heart, a heart that’s still far from God. But Jesus has ushered in a new era. True, after we begin to follow Christ, our hearts are still capable of sinning, yet Jesus has made them brand new. In Ezekiel 36:26 God said, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” That means our hearts are not desperately wicked and prone to deceit anymore.
