Proverbs 21:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

Cross References

Job 31:6

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

Psalm 36:2

For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

Proverbs 12:15

The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 16:25

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

Proverbs 17:3

The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

Proverbs 20:6

Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?

Proverbs 24:12

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?

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

Jeremiah 17:10

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.

Daniel 5:27

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

Luke 16:15

And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

Galatians 6:3

For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

Revelation 2:23

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.

1 Samuel 16:7

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.