He shapes the hearts of each; He considers all their works.
Parallel translations
- WEB he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.
- KJV He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
- NKJV He fashions their hearts individually; He considers all their works.
- NASB He who fashions the hearts of them all, He who understands all their works.
- NLT He made their hearts, so he understands everything they do.
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Quick answer
God forms every human heart and discerns all that people do.
Overview
As the maker of every heart, God understands the inner life and considers all human deeds. He is not a distant observer but the intimate fashioner of each person. This searching knowledge calls us to integrity and finds its remedy in the cleansing heart-renewal Christ provides.
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- Jer 32:19the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
- Ps 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
- Hos 7:2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.
- Prov 24:12If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
- Eccl 7:29Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
- Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
- Job 11:11Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?
- Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
- Prov 27:19As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.
- Isa 64:8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
- Prov 22:2The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
- Job 34:21–22For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
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