Proverbs 17:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ A refining pot is for silver and a furnace for gold, But יהוה  tries the hearts.

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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.

Proverbs 17:3 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

“And I know, my Elohim, that You are trying the heart and desire uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have voluntarily given all these. And now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to give voluntarily to You.

Job 23:10

For He knows the way that I take. When He has tried me, I would come forth as gold.

Job 28:1

“Indeed, there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O Ě

Psalm 26:2

Examine me, O יהוה, and prove me; Try my kidneys and my heart.

Psalm 66:10

For You, O Elohim, have proved us; You have refined us as silver is refined.

Proverbs 15:11

The grave and destruction are before יהוה, How much more the hearts of the sons of men.

Proverbs 16:2

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, But יהוה  weighs the spirits.

Proverbs 17:2

A wise servant rules over a son who causes shame, And shares an inheritance among the brothers.

Proverbs 21:2

All a man’s ways are right in his own eyes, But יהוה  weighs the hearts.

Proverbs 27:21

A refining pot is for silver and a furnace for gold, So a man is tried by his praise.

Isaiah 48:10

“See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Jeremiah 17:10

“I, יהוה, search the heart, I try the kidneys, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

Ezekiel 22:18

“Son of man, the house of Yisra’ĕ

Daniel 11:35

“And some of those who have insight shall stumble, to refine them, and to cleanse them, and to make them white, until the time of the end, for it is still for an appointed time.

Zechariah 13:9

“And I shall bring the third into fire, and refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My Name, and I shall answer them. I shall say, ‘This is My people,’ while they say, ‘יהוה  is my Elohim.’ ”

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and to try you, to do you good in the end,

Deuteronomy 8:2

“And you shall remember that יהוה  your Elohim led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you guard His commands or not.

1 Peter 1:7

in order that the proving of your belief – much more precious than gold that perishes, and proven by fire – might be found to result in praise and respect and esteem at the revelation of יהושע  Messiah,

Revelation 2:23

“And I shall slay her children with death. And all the assemblies shall know that I am the One searching the kidneys and hearts. And I shall give to each one of you according to your works.