Proverbs 17:3 - King James 2000

³ The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: But the LORD trieth the hearts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tries the hearts. [Ps. 26:2; Prov. 27:21; Jer. 17:10; Mal. 3:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.

Common English Bible

³ A crucible is for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Just as silver is tested by fire, and gold is tested in the furnace, so also does the Lord test hearts.

Proverbs 17:3 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know also, my God, that you test the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, who are present here, to offer willingly unto you.

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

Job 28:1

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

Psalm 139:23

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

Psalm 26:2

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

Psalm 66:10

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Proverbs 16:2

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

Proverbs 17:2

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

Proverbs 21:2

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

Proverbs 27:21

As the refining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man judged by his praise.

Isaiah 48:10

Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Ezekiel 22:18

Son of man, the house of Israel has to me become dross: all they are bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Daniel 11:35

And some of them of understanding shall fall, to test them, and to purify them, and to make them white, until the time of the end: because it is yet for the time appointed.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, They are my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

Deuteronomy 8:16

Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good in the end;

Deuteronomy 8:2

And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

1 Peter 1:7

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.