Psalms 17:3

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Job 23:10 : 10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
  • Ps 26:2 : 2 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
  • Ps 39:1 : 1 I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."
  • Ps 66:10 : 10 For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
  • 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.'"
  • 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--
  • Ps 16:7 : 7 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
  • Mal 3:2 : 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;
  • Acts 11:23 : 23 who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
  • Ps 139:1 : 1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
  • Prov 13:3 : 3 He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
  • Jer 50:20 : 20 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
  • Hos 7:6 : 6 For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Ps 119:106 : 106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
  • Ps 44:17-21 : 17 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant. 18 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path, 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god; 21 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
  • Ps 7:4 : 4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
  • 1 Sam 24:10 : 10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.
  • 1 Sam 24:12 : 12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.
  • 1 Sam 26:11 : 11 Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go."
  • 1 Sam 26:23 : 23 Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed.
  • Acts 16:9 : 9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us."
  • Acts 18:9-9 : 9 The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent; 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

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