Proverbs 17:3

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

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

Job 23:10

But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, 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 heart and my mind.

Psalm 66:10

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

Proverbs 15:11

Hell and destruction are before Jehovah; even more the hearts of the sons of men.

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 17:2

A wise servant shall have rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brothers.

Proverbs 21:2

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

Proverbs 27:21

As the refining pot for silver and the furnace for gold, so is a man to 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 reins, 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 even the dross of silver.

Daniel 11:35

And many of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and purge them, and to make white, to the time of the end. Because it is still for the appointed time.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. 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 fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you and so that He might prove you, to do you good in your latter end,

Deuteronomy 8:2

And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might 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 churches will know that I am He who searches the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works.