He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
Parallel translations
- WEB he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.
- BSB He shapes the hearts of each; He considers 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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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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Jer 32:19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
- Ps 44:21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
- Hos 7:2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
- Prov 24:12If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
- Eccl 7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Job 10:8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
- Job 11:11For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- Acts 17:26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
- Prov 27:19As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
- Isa 64:8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
- Prov 22:2The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
- Job 34:21–22For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
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