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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Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Psalms 81:7
You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.

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Job 2:3
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Psalms 66:11
You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

Daniel 11:35
Some of those who are wise will fall—to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.

Daniel 12:10
Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

1 Peter 4:13
But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

Revelation 2:10
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 3:10
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

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Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

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Isaiah 1:26
I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’

Isaiah 31:9
His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 6:27
“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way.

Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.

Ezekiel 22:19
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 22:21
Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.

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Psalms 44:21
won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— 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 Yahweh weighs the motives.

Proverbs 24:12
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

John 2:24
But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

Acts 1:24
They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

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