Jeremiah 17:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • Jer 32:19 : 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.
  • Jer 11:20 : 20 So I said,“O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, you are a just judge! You examine people’s hearts and minds. I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.”
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 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.”
  • Rom 8:27 : 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.
  • Rev 2:23 : 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.
  • Ps 62:12 : 12 and you, O Lord, demonstrate loyal love. For you repay men for what they do.
  • Jer 20:12 : 12 O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, you test and prove the righteous. You see into people’s hearts and minds. Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.
  • Ps 139:23-24 : 23 Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns! 24 See if there is any idolatrous way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way!
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 “And you, Solomon my son, obey the God of your father and serve him with a submissive attitude and a willing spirit, for the LORD examines all minds and understands every motive of one’s thoughts. If you seek him, he will let you find him, but if you abandon him, he will reject you permanently.
  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know, my God, that you examine thoughts and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done. 11 Woe to the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.
  • Rom 2:6-8 : 6 He will reward each one according to his works: 7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, 8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows, 8 because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • Rev 22:12 : 12 (Look! I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to pay each one according to what he has done!
  • Jer 21:14 : 14 But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’ says the LORD.‘I will set fire to your palace; it will burn up everything around it.’”
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
  • Mic 7:13 : 13 The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.
  • Matt 16:27 : 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.
  • John 2:25 : 25 He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.
  • Ps 139:1-2 : 1 For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know. 2 You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.
  • 2 Chr 6:30 : 30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives.(Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)
  • Ps 7:9 : 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!
  • Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.
  • Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened– the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.

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    9The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

  • Ps 26:2
    78%

    2Examine me, O LORD, and test me! Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives!

  • Ps 139:23
    77%

    23Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

  • Prov 17:3
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    3The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.

  • Prov 21:1-2
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    1The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.

    2All of a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates his thoughts.

  • Ps 7:8-9
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    8The LORD judges the nations. Vindicate me, LORD, because I am innocent, because I am blameless, O Exalted One!

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  • Ps 44:21
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    21would not God discover it, for he knows one’s thoughts?

  • Ps 64:6
    75%

    6They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered.

  • Prov 16:9
    74%

    9A person plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.

  • Ps 17:3
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    3You 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.

  • Jer 20:12
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    12O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, you test and prove the righteous. You see into people’s hearts and minds. Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.

  • 1 Kgs 8:39
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    39then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of his motives.(Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)

  • Prov 16:1-2
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    74%

    1The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD.

    2All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates the motives.

  • Ps 139:1
    73%

    1For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know.

  • Ezek 11:21
    73%

    21But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Jer 32:19
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    19You 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.

  • Prov 24:12
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    12If you say,“But we did not know about this,” won’t the one who evaluates hearts discern it? Won’t the one who guards your life realize and repay each person according to his deeds?

  • Jer 16:17
    73%

    17For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.

  • 2 Chr 6:30
    72%

    30then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives.(Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)

  • Jer 12:3
    72%

    3But you, LORD, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!

  • Ps 33:15
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    15He is the one who forms every human heart, and takes note of all their actions.

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    17I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

  • Jer 11:20
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    20So I said,“O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, you are a just judge! You examine people’s hearts and minds. I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.”

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    18“The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”

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    11For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

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    21For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.

  • Rom 2:6
    71%

    6He will reward each one according to his works:

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    3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.

  • Jer 18:11
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    11Death and Destruction are before the LORD– how much more the hearts of humans!

  • Ps 94:11
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    11The LORD knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.

  • 1 Chr 29:17
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    17I know, my God, that you examine thoughts and are pleased with integrity. With pure motives I contribute all this; and now I look with joy as your people who have gathered here contribute to you.

  • Ps 11:4-5
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    4The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD’s throne is in heaven. His eyes watch; his eyes examine all people.

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  • Jer 29:13
    70%

    13When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,

  • Ps 125:4
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    4Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, to the morally upright!

  • Prov 20:11
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    11Even a young man is known by his actions, whether his activity is pure and whether it is right.

  • Job 10:6
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    6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

  • Ezek 18:30
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    30“Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, O house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity.

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    40נ(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD.

  • Ps 28:4
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    4Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

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    17Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath– these are all things that I hate,’ says the LORD.

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    4I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; I will not permit evil.

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    20Yet you say,‘The behavior of the Lord is not right.’ House of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his behavior.”

  • Prov 20:27
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    27The human spirit is like the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

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    17I thought to myself,“God will judge both the righteous and the wicked; for there is an appropriate time for every activity, and there is a time of judgment for every deed.