Proverbs 16:3
Commit your works unto the LORD, and your thoughts shall be established.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
In Context
2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weights the spirits.
4The LORD has made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Cross References
Job 5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Psalms 37:4Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of yours heart.
Psalms 55:22Cast your burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Isaiah 7:5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against you, saying,
Luke 12:22And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what all of you shall eat; neither for the body, what all of you shall put on.
1 Peter 5:7Casting all your care upon him; for 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 →