Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
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. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
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