Proverbs 16:3
Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
In Context
2All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
4The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
Cross References
Job 5:8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
Psalms 37:4Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalms 55:22Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
Isaiah 7:5For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying:
Luke 12:22Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
1 Peter 5:7Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:3
2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits. Note, 1. We are all apt to be partial in judging of ourselves: All the ways of a man, all his designs, all his doings, are clean in his own eyes, and he sees nothing amiss in them, nothing for which to condemn himself, or which should make his projects prove otherwise than well; and therefore he is confident of success, and that the answer of the tongue shall be according to the expectations of the heart; but there is a great… Read the whole commentary →