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1 Samuel 2:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.

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Give ear in heaven your living-place, acting in mercy; and give to every man whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of all the children of men:

Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:

Great is our Lord, and great his power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?

The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.

Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will seeif it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,

And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.

Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them.

But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.




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