Proverbs 17:3

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Isaiah 48:10

Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Jeremiah 17:10

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

Psalm 26:2

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Proverbs 27:21

As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

1 Peter 1:7

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found to praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know also, my God, that you 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 have I seen with joy your people, which are present here, to offer willingly to you.

Psalm 66:10

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts: and I will give to every one of you according to your works.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part through 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, The LORD is my God.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Proverbs 15:11

Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Proverbs 17:2

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brothers.

Ezekiel 22:18

Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Daniel 11:35

And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

Deuteronomy 8:2

And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or no.

Deuteronomy 8:16

Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your 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 vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 21:2

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