Proverbs 17:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Fire is used to make gold and silver pure, but a person’s heart is made pure by the Lord.

Cross References

Isaiah 48:10

“Look, I will make you pure, but not in the way you make silver pure. I will make you pure by giving you troubles.

Jeremiah 17:10

But I am the Lord, and I can look into a person’s heart. I can test a person’s mind and decide what each one should have. I can give each person the right payment for what they do.

Psalm 26:2

Look closely at me, Lord, and test me. Judge my deepest thoughts and emotions.

Proverbs 27:21

People use fire to purify gold and silver. In the same way, you are tested by the praise people give you.

1 Peter 1:7

These troubles test your faith and prove that it is pure. And such faith is worth more than gold. Gold can be proved to be pure by fire, but gold will ruin. When your faith is proven to be pure, the result will be praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ comes.

1 Chronicles 29:17

My God, I know that you test people, and that you are happy when people do what is right. I gladly give you all these things with a pure, honest heart. I see your people gathered here, and I see that they are happy about giving these things to you.

Psalm 66:10

God, you have tested us, as people test silver with fire.

Revelation 2:23

I will also kill her followers. Then all the churches will see that I am the one who knows what people feel and think. And I will repay each of you for what you have done.

Zechariah 13:9

Then I will test those survivors by giving them many troubles. The troubles will be like the fire a person uses to prove silver is pure. I will test them the way a person tests gold. Then they will call to me for help, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘You are my people.’ And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Psalm 139:23

God, examine me and know my mind. Test me and know all my worries.

Proverbs 15:11

The Lord knows everything, even what happens in the place of death. So surely he knows what people are thinking.

Proverbs 17:2

A smart servant will gain control over his master’s foolish son. He will be treated like a son and get a share of the inheritance.

Ezekiel 22:18

“Son of man, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are important metals, but when a worker melts silver to make it pure, those metals are poured off as waste. Israel has become like that waste to me.

Daniel 11:35

Some of the wise people will stumble and make mistakes. But the persecution must come so that they can be made stronger and purer until the time of the end. Then, at the right time, that time of the end will come.

Deuteronomy 8:2

And you must remember the entire trip that the Lord your God has led you through these 40 years in the desert. He was testing you. He wanted to make you humble. He wanted to know what is in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands.

Deuteronomy 8:16

In the desert he fed you manna—something your ancestors had never seen. He tested you to make you humble so that everything would go well for you in the end.

Job 23:10

But God knows me. He is testing me and will see that I am as pure as gold.

Job 28:1

“There are mines where people get silver and places where people melt gold to make it pure.

Proverbs 16:2

People think that whatever they do is right, but the Lord judges their reason for doing it.

Proverbs 21:2

People think that whatever they do is right, but the Lord judges the reasons for everything they do.