2 Chronicles 16:9

God's eyes range the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully His, but Asa acted foolishly and will face wars. God actively supports the wholly devoted, and self-reliance brings loss.

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• 1 Pet 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
• Prov 15:3Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
• Jer 16:17For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
• Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
• Ps 34:15Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
• Job 34:21“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
• Heb 4:13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
• Zech 4:10Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
• Jer 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
• 2 Chr 6:20that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.
• Ps 113:6Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
• Ps 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
• 1 Sam 13:13Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
• Gal 3:1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
• 1 Chr 21:8David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
• Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’
• 2 Kgs 20:3“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• 2 Sam 12:7–12Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
• Job 34:18–19Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?
• 1 Kgs 15:32There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
• 2 Chr 15:17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
• 1 Cor 15:36You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
• Jer 5:21‘Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don’t see; who have ears, and don’t hear:
• Matt 5:22But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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