Proverbs 21:2

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Proverbs 21:1–4 · 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.

4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.

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

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 16:25

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

Proverbs 20:6

Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man?

Proverbs 30:12

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

Psalms 36:2

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

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.

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’

Galatians 6:3

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

James 1:22

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

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.”

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.

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.

John 2:24

But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.

John 2:25

He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

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.