Proverbs 21:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: But the LORD pondereth the hearts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs and tries the hearts. [Prov. 24:12; Luke 16:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the hearts.

Common English Bible

² Everyone’s path is straight in their own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Every way of a man seems right to himself. But the Lord weighs hearts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.

Proverbs 21:2 Cross References

Job 31:6

(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)

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 16:2

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

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 20:6

Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but a faithful man who can find?

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.

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;

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.

Galatians 6:3

For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

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.

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.”