Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options Listen to Proverbs 21:2-4
Close KJV

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.

Read full chapter
Listen to Proverbs 21:2-4
Close ESV

Proverbs 21:2-4
English Standard Version

2 (A)Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
    but the Lord (B)weighs the heart.
3 (C)To do righteousness and justice
    is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
4 (D)Haughty eyes and a proud heart,
    (E)the lamp[a] of the wicked, are sin.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:4 Or the plowing
Listen to Proverbs 21:2-4
Close NKJV

Proverbs 21:2-4
New King James Version

2 (A)Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
(B)But the Lord weighs the hearts.

3 (C)To do righteousness and justice
Is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

4 (D)A haughty look, a proud heart,
And the [a]plowing of the wicked are sin.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:4 Or lamp
Next
Proverbs 20
Proverbs 22
Next
dropdown
King James Version (KJV)

Public Domain

English Standard Version (ESV)

The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025.

ESV Study Bible
New King James Version (NKJV)

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Learn the Bible in 30 days