re: Why is it that the right way, thing or path just happens to be our view

29 Bible Verses about
What Is Right In Our Own Eyes


Proverbs 14:12 ESV

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Proverbs 21:2 ESV

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Proverbs 12:15 ESV

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Isaiah 5:21 ESV

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!

Judges 21:25 ESV

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Galatians 5:19 ESV

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Proverbs 3:7 ESV

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Proverbs 26:12 ESV

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Judges 17:6 ESV

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Deuteronomy 12:8 ESV

“You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,

Jeremiah 11:8 ESV

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.”

Proverbs 6:17 ESV

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Romans 8:5 ESV

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Deuteronomy 29:18-19 ESV

Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

1 John 1:8 ESV

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

2 Kings 22:1-23:37 ESV

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.


Revelation 1:7 ESV

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Philippians 4:8 ESV

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Romans 8:7 ESV

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.


2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

John 3:16-17 ESV

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Romans 7:15 ESV

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.