1 Samuel 2:3

Hannah warns against proud, arrogant speech, for God knows all and weighs every action. Human boasting is folly before the all-knowing Judge.

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• 1 Kgs 8:39then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
• Prov 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
• Prov 24:12If 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?
• Jude 1:15–16to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Prov 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.
• Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
• 1 Sam 16:7But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
• Ps 94:7–10They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
• Dan 4:30–31The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
• Isa 37:23Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 44:21won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
• Ps 147:5Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.
• Job 31:6(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Rev 2:23I 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.
• Dan 5:27TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
• Mal 3:13“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
• Jer 17:10“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.”
• Isa 26:7The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

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