Proverbs 16:2

²Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.

⁷But the LORD said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

¹⁵He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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

¹⁰“I, the LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

¹²If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not give to every man according to his work?

²For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

²¹For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

²⁵There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

²²For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD. ²³“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,