Proverbs 17:3

New Living Translation

Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there. You know I have done all this with good motives, and I have watched your people offer their gifts willingly and joyously.

Job 23:10

“But he knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.

Job 28:1

“People know where to mine silver and how to refine gold.

Psalm 139:23

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

Psalm 26:2

Put me on trial, Lord, and cross-examine me. Test my motives and my heart.

Psalm 66:10

You have tested us, O God; you have purified us like silver.

Proverbs 15:11

Even Death and Destruction hold no secrets from the Lord. How much more does he know the human heart!

Proverbs 16:2

People may be pure in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their motives.

Proverbs 17:2

A wise servant will rule over the master’s disgraceful son and will share the inheritance of the master’s children.

Proverbs 21:2

People may be right in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their heart.

Proverbs 27:21

Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but a person is tested by being praised.

Isaiah 48:10

I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.

Jeremiah 17:10

But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”

Ezekiel 22:18

“Son of man, the people of Israel are the worthless slag that remains after silver is smelted. They are the dross that is left over—a useless mixture of copper, tin, iron, and lead.

Daniel 11:35

And some of the wise will fall victim to persecution. In this way, they will be refined and cleansed and made pure until the time of the end, for the appointed time is still to come.

Zechariah 13:9

I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure. I will refine them like silver and purify them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘These are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’”

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.

1 Peter 1:7

These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

Revelation 2:23

I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches out the thoughts and intentions of every person. And I will give to each of you whatever you deserve.