Psalms 139:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 26:2 : 2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
  • Job 31:6 : 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 ¶ The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
  • Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It [is] my people: and they shall say, The LORD [is] my God.
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
  • Ps 139:1 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: 3 And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
  • Jer 11:20 : 20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 26:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1 ¶ [A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.

    2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

  • Ps 139:1-8
    8 verses
    85%

    1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

    2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

    3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.

    4 For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

    5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

    6 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.

    7 ¶ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

    8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].

  • 24 And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

  • 3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.

  • 3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

  • Jer 17:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

    10 I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.

  • Ps 139:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17 ¶ How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

    18 [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

  • Ps 139:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

    22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 ¶ With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

    11 ¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

  • 6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

  • 5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

  • 23 ¶ How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

  • 6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

  • Ps 51:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

    10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

  • 75%

    9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

  • 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.

  • 12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

  • 23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay [me]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.

  • 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

  • Ps 51:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 ¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

    2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

    3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me.

  • 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].

  • 11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.

  • 12 Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].

  • 8 [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

  • 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were [any] that did understand, that did seek God.

  • 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

  • 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  • 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • 8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

  • 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart.

  • 21 ¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

  • 1 ¶ A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

  • 4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked [person].