Proverbs 21:2

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

Job 31:6

let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness.

Psalm 36:2

For he flatters himself in his own eyes in order to find his iniquity, to hate it.

Proverbs 12:15

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

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 16:25

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

Proverbs 17:3

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.

Proverbs 20:6

Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, Behold, we did not know; does not He who searches the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He know? And He repays to a 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 own filth.

Jeremiah 17:10

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Daniel 5:27

A SHEKEL, You are weighed in the balances and found wanting.

Luke 16:15

And He said to them, You are those who 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 anyone thinks himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

James 1:22

But become 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 will know that I am He who searches the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works.

1 Samuel 16:7

But Jehovah said to Samuel, Do not look on his face, nor on his height, because I have refused him. For He does not see as man sees. For man looks on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looks on the heart.