Proverbs 16:2

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Summary

Proverbs 16:2

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

The ways

But

General references

Luke 17:10

Bible References

The ways

There is a way right before a man, And its latter end -- ways of death.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering hearts.

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, 'Blessed art thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.'

For he made it smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

But

For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

When thou sayest, 'Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, 'Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth -- for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'

The path for the righteous is uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.

I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

Weighed -- Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.

and he said to them, 'Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;

'And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;

General references

So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'