Proverbs 21:2

American King James Version (1999)

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts.

Cross References

Job 31:6

Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity.

Psalm 36:2

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

Proverbs 12:15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that listens to counsel is wise.

Proverbs 16:2

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

Proverbs 16:25

There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Proverbs 17:3

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.

Proverbs 20:6

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that ponders the heart consider it? and he that keeps your soul, does not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Luke 16:15

And he said to them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Galatians 6:3

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

James 1:22

But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts: and I will give to every one of you according to your works.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.