New Revised Standard Version
All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit.

Contemporary English Version
We may think we know what is right, but the LORD is the judge of our motives.

New American Bible
All one’s ways are pure in one’s own eyes, but the measurer of motives is the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits.

All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits.

the ways

Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth to a man right: and the ends thereof lead to death.

Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.

Proverbs 30:12 A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

1 Samuel 15:13,14 And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord. . . .

Psalm 36:2 For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

Jeremiah 2:22,23 Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God. . . .

Luke 18:9-11 And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable: . . .

Romans 7:7-9 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet. . . .

but

Proverbs 5:21 His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

Proverbs 24:12 If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works.

1 Samuel 16:7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.

Jeremiah 17:10 I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Daniel 5:27 THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.

Luke 16:15 And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.

Revelation 2:18,23 And to the angel of the church of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like to a flame of fire and his feet like to fine brass. . . .