Proverbs 15:11

World English Bible (2000)

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh-- how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

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  • Ps 44:21 : 21 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
  • 2 Chr 6:30 : 30 then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)
  • Job 26:6 : 6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
  • Ps 139:8 : 8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
  • Prov 27:20 : 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, 25 and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
  • John 21:17 : 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."

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  • 6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

  • 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man's eyes are never satisfied.

  • 24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Prov 15:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

    10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

  • 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

  • 3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Jer 17:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

    10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

  • 12 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

  • 20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

  • 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

  • 15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

  • 12 Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

  • 9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  • Prov 6:15-16
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    71%

    15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

    16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

  • 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.

  • 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

  • 1 An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

  • 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

  • 5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

  • Ps 14:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

    2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

  • 8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

  • 1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

  • 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

  • 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

  • 17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

  • 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  • 15 Hear, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

  • 3 Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

  • 29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

  • 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

  • 36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

  • 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

  • 5 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

  • 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  • 14 Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

  • 13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

  • 15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 26 Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

  • 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

  • 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

  • 6 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

  • 9 A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

  • 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

  • 7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."