Proverbs 21:2

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What does Proverbs 21:2 mean?

Proverbs 21:2 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 21:2

• Proverbs 16:2

  All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

• Luke 16:15

  And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

• Proverbs 16:25

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

• Jeremiah 17:10

  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.

• Proverbs 30:12

  There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

• Proverbs 24:12

  If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

• James 1:22

  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

• Luke 18:11-12

  The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

• Psalms 36:2

  For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

• Galatians 6:3

  For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

• John 2:24-25

  But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

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Context

• Proverbs 21:1

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

• Proverbs 21:2

  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

• Proverbs 21:3

  To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

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