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Proverbs 21:2
A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart.
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1 Samuel 16 7
But the Lord said to Samuel,“ Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
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Proverbs 30:12
those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;
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Luke 16:15
He said to them,“ You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
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Proverbs 24:12
If you say,“ But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?
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Psalms 36:2
In their own eyes they flatter themselves too much to detect or hate their sin.
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Jeremiah 17:10
“ I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
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Jeremiah 2:22-23
Although you wash yourself with soap and use an abundance of cleansing powder, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Sovereign Lord.“ How can you say,‘ I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there,
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Proverbs 5:21
For your ways are in full view of the Lord, and he examines all your paths.
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Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.
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Isaiah 26:7
The path of the righteous is level; you, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.
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Revelation 2:23
I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
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Luke 18:9-11
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:“ Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed:‘ God, I thank you that I am not like other people— robbers, evildoers, adulterers— or even like this tax collector.
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Daniel 5:27
Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
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1 Samuel 15 13-1 Samuel 15 14
When Samuel reached him, Saul said,“ The Lord bless you! I have carried out the Lord’s instructions.”But Samuel said,“ What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?”
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Revelation 2:18
“ To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
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Romans 7:7-9
What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said,“ You shall not covet.”But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.