Psalm 17:3

Modern English Version

You have tried my heart; You have visited me by night; You have tested me and found nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your fathers and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing spirit, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will abandon you forever.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that You test the heart, and with uprightness You are pleased, so in the uprightness of my heart I have offered freely all these things, and now I have seen Your people, those present here, offer freely and joyously to You.

Job 23:10

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

Job 24:14

The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord tests the righteous, but the wicked and he who loves violence His soul hates.

Psalm 119:106

I have sworn and I will confirm it, that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

Psalm 139:1

O  Lord, You have searched me and known me.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me, and know my thoughts!

Psalm 16:7

I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.

Psalm 26:2

Examine me, O  Lord, and prove me; try my mind and my heart.

Psalm 39:1

I said, “I will guard my ways, lest I sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are before me.”

Psalm 66:10

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

Psalm 7:4

if I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, or have delivered my adversary without cause,

Proverbs 13:3

He who guards his mouth preserves his life, but he who opens wide his lips will come to ruin.

Jeremiah 12:3

But You, O  Lord, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 50:20

In those days and at that time, says the Lord, the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there shall be none. And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

Hosea 7:6

For they are kindled like an oven. Their heart burns within them; their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring this one-third left into the fire, and will refine them as the refinement of silver, and will test them as the testing of gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are My people”; and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”

Malachi 3:2

But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

Acts 11:23

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and exhorted them all to remain with the Lord with a loyal heart.

Acts 16:9

During the night a vision appeared to Paul: A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

1 Corinthians 4:4

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this. But He who judges me is the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our rejoicing is this: The testimony of our conscience is that we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you, in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God.

James 3:2

We all stumble in many ways. But if any man does not stumble in what he says, he is a complete man and able also to control the whole body.

1 Peter 1:7

in order that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tried by fire, may be found to result in praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

1 Samuel 24:10

Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave. So that some said to kill you, but my eye had compassion on you. And I said, ‘I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is anointed of the Lord.’

1 Samuel 24:12

The Lord will judge between me and you, and the Lord will avenge me on you, but my hand will not be against you.

1 Samuel 26:11

The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed, but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go.”

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord requites to every man his right conduct and loyalty. So the Lord gave you into my hand today, but I am not willing to stretch my hand against the Lord’s anointed.