1. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

2 “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.”

3 “The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man.”

4 “But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”