He who fashions the hearts of them all, He who understands 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.
- BSB He shapes the hearts of each; He considers all their works.
- NKJV He fashions their hearts individually; He considers 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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Cross-references · 13
- 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:
- Ps 44:21won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
- Hos 7:2They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- 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?
- Eccl 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
- Job 10:8“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
- Job 11:11For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
- Acts 17:26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
- Prov 27:19Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.
- Isa 64:8But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
- Prov 22:2The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
- Job 34:21–22“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
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