Proverbs 17:3

A Conservative Version

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but LORD tries the hearts.

Cross References

Isaiah 48:10

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Psalm 26:2

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

Proverbs 27:21

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is [tried] by his praise.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, off

Psalm 66:10

For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children in death. And all the congregations will know that I am he who searches the inner feelings and hearts. And I will give to you--to each--according to your works.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts,

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and Abaddon are before LORD. How much more then the hearts of the sons of men!

Proverbs 17:2

A servant who deals wisely shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have part in the inheritance among the brothers.

Ezekiel 22:18

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

Daniel 11:35

And some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.

Deuteronomy 8:2

And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers did not know, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end.

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Job 28:1

Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 21:2

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the hearts.