Proverbs 27:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person’s heart reflects the person.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 1:22-25 : 22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror. 24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was. 25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
  • Ps 33:15 : 15 He is the one who forms every human heart, and takes note of all their actions.
  • Mark 7:21 : 21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

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    20As Death and Destruction are never satisfied, so the eyes of a person are never satisfied.

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  • Prov 15:23
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  • Jas 1:23-24
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    9Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one’s friend from sincere counsel.

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