Proverbs 24:12

New English Translation

If you say, “But we did not know about this,” does not the one who evaluates hearts consider? Does not the one who guards your life know? Will he not repay each person according to his deeds?

Cross References

Job 34:11

For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

Psalm 121:3

May he not allow your foot to slip! May your protector not sleep!

Psalm 121:8

The Lord will protect you in all you do, now and forevermore.

Psalm 17:3

You have scrutinized my inner motives; you have examined me during the night. You have carefully evaluated me, but you find no sin. I am determined I will say nothing sinful.

Psalm 44:21

would not God discover it, for he knows one’s thoughts?

Psalm 62:12

and you, O Lord, demonstrate loyal love. For you repay men for what they do.

Psalm 66:9

He preserves our lives and does not allow our feet to slip.

Psalm 7:9

May the evil deeds of the wicked come to an end! But make the innocent secure, O righteous God, you who examine inner thoughts and motives!

Psalm 94:9

Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?

Proverbs 12:14

A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

Proverbs 16:2

All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates the motives.

Proverbs 21:2

All of a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates the motives.

Proverbs 5:21

For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord’s eyes, and the Lord weighs all that person’s paths.

Proverbs 5:22

The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the extortion of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them!

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.

Jeremiah 32:19

You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. You see everything people do. You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do.

Lamentations 3:36

to defraud a person in a lawsuit – the Lord does not approve of such things! מ (Mem)

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.

Acts 17:28

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

Romans 2:16

on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

Romans 2:6

He will reward each one according to his works:

1 Corinthians 4:5

So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.

2 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.

Revelation 1:18

and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!

Revelation 2:18

“To the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame and whose feet are like polished bronze:

Revelation 2:23

Furthermore, I will strike her followers with a deadly disease, and then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will repay each one of you what your deeds deserve.

Revelation 22:12

(Look! I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to pay each one according to what he has done!

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. People look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

1 Samuel 2:3

Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly, letting proud talk come out of your mouth! For the Lord is a God who knows; he evaluates what people do.

1 Samuel 2:6

The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

1 Samuel 25:29

When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!