Psalms 139:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 26:2 : 2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; test my mind and my heart.
  • Job 31:6 : 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests 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 test them as gold is tested; 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 you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Ps 139:1 : 1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 But who may endure the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? 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 refine them like gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.
  • Jer 11:20 : 20 But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good at your latter end;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 26:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1 Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity; I have also trusted in the LORD; therefore I shall not fall.

    2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; test my mind and my heart.

  • Ps 139:1-8
    8 verses
    85%

    1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

    2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar.

    3 You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

    4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.

    5 You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.

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

    7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

    8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

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

  • 3 You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

  • 3 But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. 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 knows 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 test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.

  • Ps 139:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17 How precious also are Your thoughts to 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 You.

  • Ps 139:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

    22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

  • Ps 119:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments.

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

  • 6 That You inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?

  • 5 O God, you know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from you.

  • 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin.

  • 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part you shall make me know wisdom.

  • Ps 51:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my 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 tries the hearts and minds.

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

  • 12 But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause.

  • 23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

  • 40 Let us search and examine our ways and turn back to the LORD.

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

  • Ps 51:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your lovingkindness; according to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

    2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

    3 For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

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

  • 11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

  • 12 Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.

  • 8 When You said, 'Seek My face,' my heart said to You, 'Your face, LORD, I will seek.'

  • 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought God.

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

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

  • 19 Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • 8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, for I trust in You: cause me to know the way I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.

  • 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

  • 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

  • 1 Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes arrogant: neither do I concern myself with great matters, or with things too high for me.

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