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Proverbs 21:2-4
Legacy Standard Bible
Proverbs 21:2-4
Legacy Standard Bible
2 (A)Every man’s way is right in his own eyes,
But Yahweh (B)weighs the hearts.
3 To do (C)righteousness and justice
Is chosen by Yahweh over sacrifice.
4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart—
The (D)fallow ground of the wicked—are sin.
Proverbs 21:2-4
New International Version
Proverbs 21:2-4
New International Version
2 A person may think their own ways are right,
but the Lord weighs the heart.(A)
3 To do what is right and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.(B)
4 Haughty eyes(C) and a proud heart—
the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.
Proverbs 21:2-4
King James Version
Proverbs 21:2-4
King James Version
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.
3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
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Proverbs 21:2-4
New King James Version
Proverbs 21:2-4
New King James Version
3 (C)To do righteousness and justice
Is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:4 Or lamp
Proverbs 21:2-4
New International Reader's Version
Proverbs 21:2-4
New International Reader's Version
2 A person might think their own ways are right.
But the Lord knows what they are thinking.
3 Do what is right and fair.
The Lord accepts that more than sacrifices.
4 The proud eyes and hearts of sinful people are like a field not plowed.
Those things produce nothing good.
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