Proverbs 21:1–2

⁹A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

²²And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

²⁴Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

¹⁰And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

¹THE preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

²⁷¶ Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem:

²⁸And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellers, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

³⁵And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

¹⁹Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

⁴Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

¹¹O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

¹⁵Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

⁴The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

²⁷That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

⁴And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

³The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

¹²And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

⁵What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

²All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

²⁵There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

¹⁵And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

¹⁰I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

¹²There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

⁷But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

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?

²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

¹²I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

²For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

³For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

²⁴But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,

²⁵And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

⁶Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

²³And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.