Proverbs 5:21

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Proverbs 5:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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

22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

23 He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.

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Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war.”

Job 31:4

Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

Job 34:21

For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.

Psalms 11:4

The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.

Psalms 17:3

You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

Psalms 139:1

O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

Psalms 139:2

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Psalms 139:3

You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

Psalms 139:4

Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

Psalms 139:5

You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

Psalms 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Psalms 139:7

Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

Psalms 139:8

If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

Psalms 139:9

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

Psalms 139:10

even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.

Psalms 139:11

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

Psalms 139:12

even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

Jeremiah 16:17

For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

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.

Jeremiah 23:24

“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 32:19

the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

Hosea 7:2

But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

Hebrews 4:13

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

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.