Proverbs 16:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² All the ways of a man are pure in his 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 he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

Proverbs 12:15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Proverbs 16:25

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

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tries hearts.

Proverbs 21:2

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “Behold, 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 requite man according to his work?

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.

Proverbs 5:21

For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he watches all his paths.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.

Jeremiah 17:10

“I the Lord search the mind and try the heart, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

Numbers 22:32

And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your ass these three times? Behold, I have come forth to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me;

Luke 16:15

But he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Revelation 2:18

“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘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 shall know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.

Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

Judges 7:6

And the number of those that lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people 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 sees not as man sees; man looks 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.