Psalms 17:3

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You have tested my heart; you have visited me at night. You have refined me and found no evil. I have resolved that my mouth will not transgress.

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  • Job 23:10 : 10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
  • Ps 26:2 : 2 Examine me, Lord, and test me; refine my inner thoughts and my heart.
  • Ps 39:1 : 1 For the director of music, for Jeduthun, a psalm of David.
  • Ps 66:10 : 10 For You, God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver is refined.
  • Zech 13:9 : 9 This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold that perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 16:7 : 7 I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my innermost being instructs me.
  • Mal 3:2 : 2
  • Acts 11:23 : 23 When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts.
  • Ps 139:1 : 1 For the director of music. A psalm of David. LORD, You have searched me and You know me.
  • Prov 13:3 : 3 Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
  • Jer 50:20 : 20 In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there will be none; and the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive those I leave as a remnant.
  • Hos 7:6 : 6 Their hearts are like an oven as they plot; all night their anger smolders, in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.
  • Ps 119:106 : 106 I have sworn, and I will confirm it, to keep Your righteous judgments.
  • Ps 44:17-21 : 17 This is from the taunts of those who insult and revile, from the presence of the enemy and the avenger. 18 All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we been false to Your covenant. 19 Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from Your path. 20 You have crushed us in the place of jackals and covered us with deep darkness. 21 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
  • Job 24:14 : 14 At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief.
  • Ps 7:4 : 4 O Lord, my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice in my hands,
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked—those who love violence—he hates with a passion.
  • 1 Sam 24:10 : 10 David said to Saul, 'Why do you listen to the words of men who say, "David seeks your harm"?'
  • 1 Sam 24:12 : 12 Look, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. Know and understand that I am not guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not sinned against you, but you are hunting me down to take my life.
  • 1 Sam 26:11 : 11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD's anointed. Now take the spear by his head and the jar of water, and let us go.
  • 1 Sam 26:23 : 23 The LORD repays everyone for their righteousness and faithfulness, for the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not lay my hand on the LORD's anointed.
  • Acts 16:9 : 9 During the night, Paul had a vision of a man from Macedonia standing and begging him, 'Come over to Macedonia and help us.'
  • Acts 18:9-9 : 9 One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, 'Do not be afraid, but keep on speaking and do not be silent.' 10 'For I am with you, and no one will attack or harm you, because I have many people in this city.'
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 I am not aware of anything against myself, but that does not make me innocent. The one who judges me is the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity and godly sincerity, not relying on worldly wisdom but on God's grace.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to also control his whole body.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 26:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1Judge me, Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

    2Examine me, Lord, and test me; refine my inner thoughts and my heart.

    3For Your steadfast love is always before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.

  • 23Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

  • Ps 17:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4Concerning what people do, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

    5Hold steady my steps in your paths so that my feet do not slip.

  • 3But you, LORD, know me; you see me and test my heart toward you. Drag them off like sheep for slaughter and set them apart for the day of killing.

  • Ps 139:1-5
    5 verses
    76%

    1For the director of music. A psalm of David. LORD, You have searched me and You know me.

    2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

    3You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways.

    4Before a word is on my tongue, You, LORD, know it completely.

    5You hem me in behind and before, and You lay Your hand upon me.

  • 3A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the Lord tests hearts.

  • 16I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You. I have not desired the day of disaster. You know what has come from my lips; it was before You.

  • 18that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?

  • 10For You, God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver is refined.

  • Ps 141:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.

    4Do not let my heart incline to an evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with those who do iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies.

  • 2Let my vindication come from your presence; may your eyes see what is right.

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10With all my heart I seek You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

    11I have hidden Your word in my heart so that I might not sin against You.

  • Job 10:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6Do You search for my iniquity and investigate my sin?

    7You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.

  • 6I consider the days of old, the years long past.

  • 10I, the LORD, search the heart and test the mind, to give each person according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

  • 12O LORD of Hosts, you who test the righteous and see the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for I have presented my case to you.

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    9The Lord will judge the peoples. Vindicate me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity.

  • 13Yet You hid these things in Your heart; I know this was Your intention.

  • Job 33:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your words.

    9'I am pure, without sin; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.'

  • Job 23:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

    11My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way and not turned aside.

  • 6Against you, you alone, I have sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified when you speak and blameless when you judge.

  • 27and my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand offered them a kiss in worship,

  • 3My words come from an upright heart, and my lips speak with clarity.

  • 4For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been clean in your eyes.'

  • 1For the director of music, for Jeduthun, a psalm of David.

  • 7I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my innermost being instructs me.

  • 17Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure.

  • 30I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—

  • 13Who can discern their own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

  • 9Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

  • 16Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.

  • 4my lips will not utter injustice, and my tongue will not speak deceit.

  • 21The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.

  • 20But, LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously and tests the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.

  • 13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence.

  • 3You who hear prayer, to you all humanity will come.

  • 21When my heart was embittered and my spirit was pierced within me,

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    3Otherwise, they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue.