Popular Bible Verses from Proverbs 16

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Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.

A man's mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure. [Ps. 37:23; Prov. 20:24; Jer. 10:23.]

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the mind and healing to the body.

THE PLANS of the mind and orderly thinking belong to man, but from the Lord comes the [wise] answer of the tongue.

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, he who rules his [own] spirit than he who takes a city.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirits (the thoughts and intents of the heart). [I Sam. 16:7; Heb. 4:12.]

He who deals wisely and heeds [God's] word and counsel shall find good, and whoever leans on, trusts in, and is confident in the Lord–happy, blessed, and fortunate is he.

Better is a little with righteousness (uprightness in every area and relation and right standing with God) than great revenues with injustice. [Ps. 37:16; Prov. 15:16.]

There is a way that seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death.

A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. [Prov. 17:9.]