Proverbs 16:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

Proverbs 16:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:21
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Luke 21:14-15
Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: …
Philippians 2:13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Proverbs 20:24
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1)

As we read this, it teaches us a great truth, that we are not sufficient of ourselves to think or speak any thing of ourselves that is wise and good, but that all our sufficiency is of God, who is with the heart and with the mouth, and works in us both to will and to do, Phil. 2:13; Ps. 10:17. But most read it otherwise: The preparation of the heart is in man (he may contrive and design this and t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Pr 16:1-33. 1. preparations--schemes. in man--or literally, “to man,” belonging, or pertaining to him. the answer ... Lord--The efficient ordering is from God: “Man proposes; God disposes.”