Proverbs 17:3

Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

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Exodus 15:25
Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.

Exodus 16:4
Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

Judges 2:22
that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

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Job 1:11
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Job 1:12
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

Job 2:4
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 2:5
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Job 2:6
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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1 Samuel 16:7
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

1 Kings 8:39
then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

Psalms 17:3
You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Psalms 139:1
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Psalms 139:24
See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

John 2:25
and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

John 21:17
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

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Proverbs 25:4
Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner.

Ezekiel 22:20
As they gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there and melt you.

Ezekiel 22:22
As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’ ”

1 Corinthians 3:13
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

Hebrews 12:10
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

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