Proverbs 21:1

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Proverbs 21:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.

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

3 To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 16:1

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

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

Proverbs 20:24

A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

Ezra 7:27

Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,

Ezra 7:28

and who has shown me favor before the king, his counselors, and all his powerful officials. And because the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, I took courage and gathered the leaders of Israel to return with me.

Nehemiah 1:11

O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

Nehemiah 2:4

“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven

Psalms 105:25

whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.

Psalms 106:46

He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

Daniel 4:35

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Acts 7:10

and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

Psalms 74:15

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Psalms 93:4

Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

Psalms 114:3

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

Psalms 114:5

Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 44:27

who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

Revelation 16:4

And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to blood.

Revelation 16:12

And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.