Proverbs 24:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?”
Read Proverbs 24:12 in the flow of Proverbs24 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Proverbs24 to see the surrounding context.
“If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If 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?”
King James Version · Public Domain“If thou sayest, Behold, we knew not this; Doth not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 24:12 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
- 1 Samuel 16:7But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
- 1 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
- Job 34:11For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
- Psalms 7:9Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
- Psalms 17:3You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
- Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
- Psalms 62:12and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
- Psalms 66:9He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
- Psalms 121:3He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
- Psalms 121:8The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
- Proverbs 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
- Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
- Proverbs 16:2All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
- Proverbs 21:2All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
- Jeremiah 17:10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- Jeremiah 32:19the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
- Lamentations 3:36to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
- Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
- Matthew 16:27For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
- Acts 17:28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
- Romans 2:6God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
- Romans 2:16on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
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