Proverbs 17:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 0 A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: But the LORD trieth the hearts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tries the hearts. [Ps. 26:2; Prov. 27:21; Jer. 17:10; Mal. 3:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.

Common English Bible

³ A crucible is for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Just as silver is tested by fire, and gold is tested in the furnace, so also does the Lord test hearts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

Proverbs 17:3 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

2 And they ate, and drank before the Lord that day with great joy. And they anointed the second time Solomon the son of David. And they anointed him to the Lord to be prince, end Sadoc to be high priest.

Job 23:10

5 And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him I am made pensive with fear.

Job 28:1

The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.

Psalm 139:23

I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.

Psalm 26:2

Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:

Psalm 66:10

7 I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue.

Proverbs 15:11

8 A passionate man stirreth up strifes: he that is patient appeaseth those that are stirred up.

Proverbs 16:2

The heart of man disposeth his way: but the Lord must direct his steps.

Proverbs 17:2

He that concealeth a transgression. seeketh friendships: he that repeateth it again, separateth friends.

Proverbs 21:2

It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.

Proverbs 27:21

The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread.

Isaiah 48:10

8 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: thy peace had been as a river, and thy justice as the waves of the sea,

Jeremiah 17:10

8 Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them.

Ezekiel 22:18

6 Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

Daniel 11:35

3 And he shall have power over the treasures of gold, and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt: and he shall pass through Libya, and Ethiopia.

Zechariah 13:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem: half of them to the east sea, and half of them to the last sea: they shall be in summer and in winter.

Deuteronomy 8:16

Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up to the sky,

Deuteronomy 8:2

For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks and of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills deep rivers break out:

1 Peter 1:7

6 Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.

Revelation 2:23

Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe, and do penance. If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee.