Verse 2

All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

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  • Prov 21:2 : 2 Every person's way seems right in their own eyes, but the LORD evaluates the hearts.
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But the LORD told Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not see as man sees; man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
  • Prov 30:12 : 12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet it is not cleansed from its filth.
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight."
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, the LORD, search the heart and test the mind, to give each person according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
  • Prov 24:12 : 12 If you say, 'We did not know about this,' won't the one who examines hearts perceive it? Won't the one who guards your soul know? He will repay everyone according to their deeds.
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and He examines all his paths.
  • Prov 16:25 : 25 There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way of death.
  • Jer 2:22-23 : 22 Though you wash yourself with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Lord GOD. 23 How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals’? Consider your path in the valley; acknowledge what you have done—like a swift young she-camel running here and there.
  • Luke 18:9-9 : 9 Jesus also told this parable to some who trusted in their own righteousness and treated others with contempt: 10 'Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.' 11 'The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people: robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.'
  • Dan 5:27 : 27 Tekel means that you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
  • Ps 36:2 : 2 An oracle of transgression speaks to the wicked within his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The path of the righteous is level; You, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.' 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 At one time I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.
  • Rev 2:18 : 18 To the angel of the church in Thyatira, write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze:
  • 1 Sam 15:13-14 : 13 When Samuel reached him, Saul said, 'Blessed are you of the LORD! I have carried out the LORD's instruction.' 14 But Samuel said, 'What is this sound of sheep and cattle that I hear?'