Proverbs 21:2-4

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²We can justify our every deed, but God looks at our motives.

³God is more pleased when we are just and fair than when we give him gifts.

⁴Pride, lust, and evil actions^[a] are all sin.

Proverbs 21:2-4

New International Version

²A person may think their own ways are right,
but the Lord weighs the heart.^(A)

³To do what is right and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.^(B)

⁴Haughty eyes^(C) and a proud heart—
the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.

²Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

³To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

⁴An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

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.

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