Proverbs 17:3

Proverbs 17:3
The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

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Genesis 17:4
As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

Isaiah 40:19
The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

Isaiah 46:9
Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;

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Genesis 44:4
And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good?

Job 31:6
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

Psalms 7:4
If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

Psalms 55:20
He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

Psalms 109:5
They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

Jeremiah 18:20
Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

Jeremiah 18:21
For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

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Genesis 49:7
A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

Proverbs 12:10
An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

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Exodus 15:26
And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

2 Samuel 24:1
Again the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and moving David against them, he said, Go, take the number of Israel and Judah.

Job 5:7
But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

1 Corinthians 10:13
You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

James 1:14
But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

James 2:21
Was not the righteousness of Abraham our father judged by his works, when he made an offering of Isaac his son on the altar?

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Numbers 27:16
Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,

Jeremiah 32:19
Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings:

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Judges 3:4
For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.

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1 Kings 7:12
The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

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2 Chronicles 6:30
Then give ear from heaven your living-place, answering with forgiveness, and give to every man, whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; (for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of the children of men;)

Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

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Job 28:1
Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

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Proverbs 2:4
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

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Proverbs 17:5
Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

Luke 12:21
So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

1 Timothy 6:18
And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;

James 2:5
Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

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Proverbs 27:2
Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

Proverbs 28:4
Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.

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Isaiah 1:27
Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

Luke 3:16
John made answer, saying to them all, Truly, I give you baptism with water, but one is coming who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:

Romans 8:29
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

Ephesians 5:26
So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

Ephesians 5:27
And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

2 Timothy 2:20
Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.

2 Timothy 2:21
If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

1 Peter 5:10
And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

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Isaiah 1:22
Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

Jeremiah 6:28
All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Jeremiah 6:30
They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

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Deuteronomy 8:3
And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:38
Clearing out from among you all those who are uncontrolled and who are sinning against me; I will take them out of the land where they are living, but they will not come into the land of Israel: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

Zechariah 13:8
And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.

Malachi 3:4
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.

Malachi 4:1
For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

Malachi 4:2
But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

Malachi 4:3
And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.

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Psalms 66:12
You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

Isaiah 24:15
Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.

Matthew 5:10
Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.

Matthew 5:11
Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

Matthew 5:12
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

Acts 5:41
So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.

Romans 5:3
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

Romans 5:4
And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

Hebrews 12:11
At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

Revelation 3:19
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

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John 11:5
Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

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John 11:6
So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days.

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Matthew 6:8
So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.

Acts 15:8
And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

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