Proverbs 17:3

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

And I know, my God, that You try the heart and are pleased with uprightness; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have offered willingly all these things; and now I have watched with joy Your people who are present here offering willingly to You.

Job 23:10

But He knows the way with me. When I am tried, I shall come forth as gold.

Job 28:1

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

Psalm 139:23

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

Psalm 26:2

Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; purify my reins and my heart.

Psalm 66:10

For You, O God, have proved us; You have tested us as silver is refined.

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah; even more the hearts of the sons of men!

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 17:2

A servant being prudent shall rule over a son who causes shame, and he shall share the inheritance among the brothers.

Proverbs 21:2

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

Proverbs 27:21

The refining pot tries silver, and the furnace tries gold, but a man is tried by the mouth of his praise.

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, Jehovah, search the heart I try the kidneys, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Ezekiel 22:18

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are bronze and tin, and iron and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

Daniel 11:35

And many of those who ponder shall stumble, to refine and to purge them, and to make white to the time of the end; for it is yet for the appointed time.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will test them as gold is tested. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, It is My people, and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who made you eat manna in the wilderness, which your fathers did not know; that He might humble you and that He might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

Deuteronomy 8:2

And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God has caused you to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, to try you, to know that which is in your heart, whether you will keep His commands or not.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the testing of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, but being tested through fire, may be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death; and all the assemblies will know that I am the One searching the kidneys and hearts. And I will give to you, each one, according to your works.