Psalms 139:23

World English Bible (2000)

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 26:2 : 2 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
  • 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 proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
  • Zech 13:9 : 9 I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Ps 139:1 : 1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 "But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap; 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
  • Jer 11:20 : 20 But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
  • Deut 8:16 : 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

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    1 Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

    2 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

  • Ps 139:1-8
    8 verses
    85%

    1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

    2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

    3 You search out 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, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

    5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

    6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

    7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

    8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

  • Ps 139:24
    84%

    24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

  • Ps 17:3
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    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.

  • Jer 12:3
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    3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • Ps 44:21
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    21 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

  • Jer 17:9-10
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    77%

    9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

    10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

  • Ps 139:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

    18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

    22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

  • Ps 119:10-11
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    10 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

    11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

  • Job 10:6
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    6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

  • Ps 69:5
    75%

    5 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.

  • Job 13:23
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    23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

  • Ps 51:6
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    6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

  • Ps 51:9-10
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    9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

    10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

  • Ps 7:9
    75%

    9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

  • Ps 64:6
    74%

    6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

  • Jer 20:12
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    12 But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

  • Jer 18:23
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    23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

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    40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

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    3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

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    1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

    2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

    3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

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    4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

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    11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

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    12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

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    8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

  • Ps 53:2
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    2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

  • Ps 19:14
    73%

    14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

  • Job 31:6
    72%

    6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

  • Ps 25:19
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    19 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

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    72%

    34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

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    21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

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    72%

    1 Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

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    72%

    4 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.