Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
Proverbs 16:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 The preparations of the heart belong to man: But the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The preparations of the heart in man, And the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THE PLANS of the mind and orderly thinking belong to man, but from the Lord comes the [wise] answer of the tongue. American Standard Version (1901) The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. Common English Bible To people belong the plans of the heart, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version It is for man to prepare the soul, and for the Lord to govern the tongue. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue. |
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem;
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who delight to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. (Now I was cupbearer to the king.)
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the droughts of my heart.
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour goeth humility.
There are many devices in a man's heart; But the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
But thanks be to God, which putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.