Proverbs 16:3

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“Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.”

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BSBPD

“Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Commit thy works unto Jehovah, And thy purposes shall be established.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 16:3 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 5:8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
  2. Job 22:28Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
  3. Psalms 37:4Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
  4. Psalms 37:5Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
  5. Psalms 55:22Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
  6. Proverbs 3:6in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
  7. Isaiah 7:5For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying:
  8. Matthew 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
  9. Luke 12:22Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
  10. Philippians 4:6Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
  11. 1 Peter 5:7Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

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