Proverbs 17:3

New International Version

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given 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 28:1

There is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Psalm 26:2

Test me, Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind;

Psalm 66:10

For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.

Proverbs 15:11

Death and Destruction lie open before the Lord— how much more do human hearts!

Proverbs 16:2

All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord.

Proverbs 17:2

A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son and will share the inheritance as one of the family.

Proverbs 21:2

A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Proverbs 27:21

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.

Isaiah 48:10

See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Jeremiah 17:10

“I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

Ezekiel 22:18

“Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver.

Daniel 11:35

Some of the wise will stumble, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.

Zechariah 13:9

This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like 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 our God.’ ”

Deuteronomy 8:16

He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

1 Peter 1:7

These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Revelation 2:23

I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.