Recently I've been trying to find more verses about how God sees our hearts and not our outer appearance. The only single verse I could find is 1 Samuel 16:7b: "For the Lord does not see as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart." - NKJV
It's a great verse, but I was hoping to find more like this and could not. Can anyone help me with more verses on this topic? I did a quick online search, Blue Letter Bible, etc...but it kept leading me to 1 Sam 16:7 only. If that's the ONLY verse about this, I'll be ok with it, I was just hoping to find more.
Other verses don't have to be word for word, just the similar idea/concept about how God sees us, compared to how humans see people in such a shallow superficial way.
Favour
is deceitful, and beauty
is vain:
but a woman
that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Prov 31:30 (KJV)
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26 For by means of a whorish woman
a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Prov 6:25-26 (KJV)
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout,
so is a fair woman which is without discretion. Prov 11:22 (KJV)
But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. 2 Sam 14:25 (KJV) ... For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom. 2 Sam 17:14 (KJV)
But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. Ezek 16:15 (KJV)
Whose adorning let it not be that outward
adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But
let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible,
even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. 5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: 1 Peter 3:3-5 (KJV)
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither
is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he
is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision
is that of the heart, in the spirit,
and not in the letter; whose praise
is not of men, but of God. Romans 2:28-29 (KJV)
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen,
yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. 1 Cor 1:27-29 (KJV)
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing
as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of
their tinkling ornaments
about their feet, and
their cauls, and
their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 21 The rings, and nose jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. 24 And it shall come to pass,
that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth;
and burning instead of beauty. Isaiah 3:16-24 (KJV)
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