Proverbs 5:21

King James Version 1611 (Original)

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 4:13 : 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Job 31:4 : 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
  • Job 34:21 : 21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
  • Prov 15:3 : 3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
  • Jer 16:17 : 17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
  • Ps 11:4 : 4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
  • Jer 32:19 : 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
  • Hos 7:2 : 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
  • 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
  • Job 14:16 : 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
  • Ps 119:168 : 168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
  • Ps 139:1-9 : 1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

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    21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

  • Prov 20:24
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    24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

  • Prov 21:1-2
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    80%

    1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

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  • Prov 16:2
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    2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

  • Prov 15:3
    76%

    3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

  • Prov 16:9
    76%

    9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

  • Prov 21:8
    75%

    8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

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    6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

  • Prov 4:25-26
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    25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

    26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

  • Job 31:4
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    4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

  • Ps 37:23
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    23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

  • Prov 2:20
    74%

    20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 5:20
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    20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Prov 10:9
    73%

    9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

  • Prov 3:6
    73%

    6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

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    15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

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    12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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    9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

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    21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

  • Jer 16:17
    73%

    17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

  • Prov 19:3
    73%

    3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

  • Jer 10:23
    72%

    23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

  • Prov 5:22
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    22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

  • Prov 7:25
    72%

    25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

  • Prov 22:12
    72%

    12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

  • Prov 7:8
    72%

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  • Ps 17:5
    71%

    5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

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    71%

    25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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    19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

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    10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

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    71%

    25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

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    71%

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    71%

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    71%

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    71%

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    70%

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    11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

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    19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

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    15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: