Proverbs 16:2

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Proverbs 21:2

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

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.”

Luke 16:15

And 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.

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.

Jeremiah 17:10

“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

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 repay man according to his work?

Psalm 36:2

For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

Proverbs 5:21

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.

Proverbs 16:25

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Daniel 5:27

Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.

Revelation 2:23

and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

Revelation 2:18

“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

1 Samuel 2:3

Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Proverbs 12:15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Numbers 22:32

And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.

Judges 7:6

And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.

Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.