Proverbs 21:2

Modern English Version

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs 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, so that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

Proverbs 12:15

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

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 16:25

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

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord is the tester of the heart.

Proverbs 20:6

Many a man will proclaim each his own goodness, but a loyal man, who can find?

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not He who weighs the heart consider it? Does not He who keeps your soul know it? Will He not render to each man according to his deeds?

Proverbs 30:12

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

Jeremiah 17:10

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

Daniel 5:27

Tekel: you have been weighed in the balances and are found wanting.

Luke 16:15

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed before men is an abomination before God.

Galatians 6:3

For if someone thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

James 1:22

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Revelation 2:23

I will put her children to death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the hearts and minds. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

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 men see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”