Proverbs 16:2

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Proverbs 16:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.

2 All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.

3 Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.

4 The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.

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Proverbs 16:25

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Proverbs 21:2

All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

1 Samuel 15:13

When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”

1 Samuel 15:14

But Samuel replied, “Then what is this bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle that I hear?”

Psalms 36:2

For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.

Jeremiah 2:22

Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

Jeremiah 2:23

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

Luke 18:9

To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:

Luke 18:10

“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

Romans 7:7

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Proverbs 5:21

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?

1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Luke 16:15

So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

Revelation 2:18

To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze.

Revelation 2:23

Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.