Proverbs 16:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ The preparations of the heart belong to man: But the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ The preparations of the heart in man, And the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ 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)

¹ The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹ To people belong the plans of the heart, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ It is for man to prepare the soul, and for the Lord to govern the tongue.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue.

Proverbs 16:1 Cross References

2 Samuel 7:5

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

2 Chronicles 18:31

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.

Ezra 7:27

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;

Nehemiah 1:11

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.)

Job 17:11

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the droughts of my heart.

Psalm 10:17

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

Psalm 119:36

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.

Exodus 4:15

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.

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour goeth humility.

Proverbs 16:9

A man's heart deviseth his way: But the LORD directeth his steps.

Proverbs 19:21

There are many devices in a man's heart; But the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

Proverbs 20:24

A man's goings are of the LORD; How then can man understand his way?

Proverbs 21:1

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.

Jeremiah 10:23

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

2 Corinthians 8:16

But thanks be to God, which putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

Philippians 2:13

for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.