Proverbs 17:3

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Cross References

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, that are present here, offer willingly to you.

Job 23:10

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

Job 28:1

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

Psalm 139:23

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

Psalm 26:2

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

Psalm 66:10

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Proverbs 15:11

She'ol and Avaddon are before the LORD-- how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 17:2

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

Proverbs 21:2

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

Proverbs 27:21

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

Isaiah 48:10

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

Jeremiah 17:10

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

Ezekiel 22:18

Son of man, the house of Yisra'el is 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

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.

Zechariah 13:9

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'*

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

Deuteronomy 8:2

You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his mitzvot, or not.

1 Peter 1:7

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah--

Revelation 2:23

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.