Proverbs 16:2

People justify their own conduct, but God examines their true motives. It matters because self-perception is unreliable; only the Lord rightly judges the heart.

Cross-references · 17

• Prov 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
• 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.”
• Luke 16:15He 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.
• Prov 30:12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
• 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.”
• 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?
• Ps 36:2For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
• Prov 16:25There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
• Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
• Luke 18:9–11He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
• Jer 2:22–23For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Dan 5:27TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
• 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.
• 1 Sam 15:13–14Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
• Rom 7:7–9What 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.”
• Isa 26:7The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
• Rev 2:18“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:

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