Proverbs 16:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But the LORD weigheth the spirits.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirits (the thoughts and intents of the heart). [I Sam. 16:7; Heb. 4:12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the spirits.

Common English Bible

² All the ways of people are pure in their eyes, but the LORD tests the motives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² All the ways of a man are open to his eyes; the Lord is the one who weighs spirits.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits.

Proverbs 16:2 Cross References

Psalm 36:2

For they flatter themselves in their own eyes that their iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

Proverbs 12:15

Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to advice.

Proverbs 16:25

Sometimes there is a way that seems to be right, but in the end it is the way to death.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

Proverbs 21:2

All deeds are right in the sight of the doer, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Proverbs 24:12

if you say, “Look, we did not know this”— does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay all according to their deeds?

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes, yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.

Proverbs 5:21

For human ways are under the eyes of the Lord, and he examines all their paths.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is level; straight is the path of the righteous that you clear.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.

Daniel 5:27

tekel: you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;

Numbers 22:32

The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? I have come out as an adversary because your way is perverse before me.

Luke 16:15

So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts, for what is prized by humans is an abomination in the sight of God.

Revelation 2:18

“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze:

Revelation 2:23

and 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 give to each of you as your works deserve.

Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.

Judges 7:6

The number of those who lapped was three hundred, but all the rest of the troops knelt down to drink water.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 Samuel 2:3

Talk no more so very proudly; let not arrogance come from your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.