Psalm 17:3

Free Bible Version

You have observed my thoughts, you have visited me at night, you have examined me—and you have found nothing wrong. I promised myself I wouldn't say anything I shouldn't.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

Solomon my son, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with complete dedication and with a willing mind, for the Lord examines every motivation and understands the intention of every thought. If you look for him, you will find him; but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you look on the inside and are happy when we live right. Everything I have given willingly and with an honest heart, and now I have seen your people here giving happily and willingly to you.

Job 23:10

Yet he always knows where I'm going. When he has proved me, I will come out shining like gold.

Job 24:14

The murderer gets up at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and when night falls he becomes a thief.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord examines both those who do right and those who do evil, but he hates those who love violence.

Psalm 119:106

I've made a promise, and I will keep it: I will keep your rules that are always right!

Psalm 139:1

Lord, you have examined me from the inside out—you know everything about me!

Psalm 139:23

Examine me carefully, God, so you can be sure of my true feelings. Check me out so you can know what I really think.

Psalm 16:7

I will bless the Lord who gives me good advice; even at night my conscience tells me what is right.

Psalm 26:2

Examine me, Lord, test me; investigate my thoughts and intentions.

Psalm 39:1

I told myself, “I will be careful in what I do, and not sin in what I say. I will keep my mouth shut when the wicked are around.”

Psalm 66:10

God, you have tested us, refining us like silver.

Psalm 7:4

If I have paid back a friend with evil, if I have robbed my enemy for no reason,

Proverbs 13:3

Watch what you say and save your life—saying too much leads to disaster.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you know me, Lord, you see me, and examine what I think about you. Drag off these people like sheep to be slaughtered; keep them apart for the time when they're killed.

Jeremiah 50:20

This will be when the guilt and the sins of Israel and Judah will be looked for, but none will be found, because I will forgive those people who remain that I'm looking after, declares the Lord.

Hosea 7:6

Their minds are fired up like an oven; they go to him with their plots. All through the night their anger burns; in the morning it blazes out uncontrollably.

Micah 2:1

How disastrous it will be for those who devise evil plans as they lie awake at night. They get up in the morning to carry them out, because they have the power to do just that.

Zechariah 13:9

I will place this one third in the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on me for help, and I will answer them. I will say, “These are my people,” and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”

Malachi 3:2

Who can survive the day when he comes? Who can stand before him when he appears? For he will be like a blazing furnace that refines metal, or like the strong alkali that cleanses stains.

Acts 11:23

When he arrived and saw for himself how God's grace was working, he was delighted. He encouraged all of them to completely dedicate themselves to God and to stay true.

Acts 16:9

There Paul saw in vision during the night a man from Macedonia standing up, pleading with him, “Please come over to Macedonia and help us!”

1 Corinthians 4:4

I don't know of anything I've done wrong, but that doesn't make me morally right. It's the Lord who judges me.

2 Corinthians 1:12

We take pride in the fact—and our conscience confirms it—that we have acted properly towards people, and especially to you. We have followed God's principles of holiness and sincerity, not according to worldly wisdom but through the grace of God.

James 3:2

All of us make mistakes in many ways. Anyone who doesn't make mistakes in what they say is truly a good person who can keep the whole body under control.

1 Peter 1:7

These prove that your trust in God is genuine, just as fire is used to prove if gold is genuine—even though that too can be destroyed—and your faith is more valuable than gold! In this way your trust in God will be recognized and you will receive praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ appears.

1 Samuel 24:10

“Just look! You've seen with your own eyes today that the Lord handed you over to me in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I showed you compassion, and said, ‘I refuse to attack my master, for he is the Lord's anointed one.’

1 Samuel 24:12

May the Lord decide between you and me as to who of us is right, and may the Lord punish you, but I myself will never try to harm you.

1 Samuel 26:11

May the Lord prevent me from attacking the Lord's anointed one. Just pick up the spear and water jug beside his head, and let's go.”

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord rewards all those who do what is right and who are trustworthy. The Lord handed you over to me today, but I refused to harm the Lord's anointed one.