Verse 2

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 21:2 : 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
  • 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."
  • Prov 30:12 : 12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
  • 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.
  • Prov 24:12 : 12 If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.
  • Prov 16:25 : 25 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
  • Jer 2:22-23 : 22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord Yahweh. 23 "How can you say, 'I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. [You are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
  • Luke 18:9-9 : 9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. 10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
  • Dan 5:27 : 27 TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
  • Ps 36:2 : 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
  • 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.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
  • Rev 2:18 : 18 "To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
  • 1 Sam 15:13-14 : 13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh." 14 Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?"