Proverbs 17:3
Good News Translation
Gold and silver are tested by fire, and a person's heart is tested by the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.

Contemporary English Version
Silver and gold are tested by flames of fire; our thoughts are tested by the LORD.

New American Bible
The crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the tester of hearts is the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

Proverbs 27:21 As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.

Psalm 26:2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.

Psalm 66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.

Isaiah 48:10 Behold I have refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of poverty.

Jeremiah 17:10 I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.

Malachi 3:2,3 And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb: . . .

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death: and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts. And I will give to every one of you according to your works. But to you I say

Context
Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
2A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren. 3As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.4The evil man obeyeth an unjust tongue: and the deceitful hearkeneth to lying lips.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17
I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.

Psalm 26:2
Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.

Psalm 139:23
Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.

Proverbs 15:11
Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more the hearts of the children of men?

Proverbs 17:2
A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and shall divide the inheritance among the brethren.

Proverbs 27:21
As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.

Jeremiah 17:10
I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.

Daniel 11:35
And some of the learned shall fall, that they may be tried, and may be chosen, and made white, even to the appointed time: because yet there shall be another time.

Malachi 3:3
And he shall sit refining and cleansing the silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices to the Lord in justice.

Proverbs 17:2
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