Proverbs 16:3
Good News Translation
Ask the LORD to bless your plans, and you will be successful in carrying them out.

New Revised Standard Version
Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

Contemporary English Version
Share your plans with the LORD, and you will succeed.

New American Bible
Entrust your works to the LORD, and your plans will succeed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be directed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be directed.

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Job 5:8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

Psalm 37:4,5 Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart. . . .

Psalm 55:22 Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Luke 12:22 And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on.

Philippians 4:6 Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.

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Job 22:28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.

Isaiah 7:5-7 Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying: . . .

Context
The Reply of the Tongue is from the LORD
2All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits. 3Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be directed.4The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.…
Cross References
1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.

Psalm 37:5
Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it.

Psalm 55:22
Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.

Proverbs 3:6
Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:

Proverbs 16:2
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