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Proverbs 17:3
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Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the Lord tests the heart.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Yahweh tries the hearts.
A hot furnace tests silver and gold, but the Lord tests hearts.
The fining-pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, But Yahweh tests the hearts.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.
As siluer is preued bi fier, and gold is preued bi a chymnei, so the Lord preueth hertis.
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Silver and gold are tested by flames of fire; our thoughts are tested by the Lord .
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.
The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
The crucible [tests] silver, and the furnace [tests] gold, but the one who tests hearts is Adonai .
The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.
Fire is used to make gold and silver pure, but a person's heart is made pure by the Lord .
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.
The fining pot is for siluer, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
The melting-pot is for silver and the hot fire is for gold, but the Lord tests hearts.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.
As is the fining pot for siluer, and the fornace for golde, so the Lord trieth the heartes.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the LORD tries the heart.
Gold and silver are tested by fire, and a person's heart is tested by the Lord .
Fining-pot for silver, crucible for gold, but, he that trieth hearts, is Yahweh.
As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tries hearts.
As siluer is tryed in the fire, and golde in the furnace: so doth the Lorde proue the heartes.
As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.
A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold,and the Lord is the tester of hearts.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests the hearts.
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace is for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.
A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts [is] Jehovah.
Like as syluer is tried in the fyre and golde in the fornace, euen so doth the LORDE proue the hertes.
As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by God .
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests the hearts.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,But Yahweh tests hearts.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 27:21, Psalms 26:2, Psalms 66:10, Isaiah 48:10, Jeremiah 17:10, Zechariah 13:9, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 3:3, 1 Peter 1:7, Revelation 2:23
Reciprocal: Genesis 22:1 - God Exodus 15:25 - proved Deuteronomy 8:2 - prove thee Judges 2:22 - prove Judges 3:1 - prove 1 Chronicles 28:9 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 32:31 - to try him Job 23:10 - he hath Job 28:1 - where they fine it Psalms 7:4 - If I Psalms 139:23 - know Proverbs 25:4 - General Jeremiah 6:29 - the founder Ezekiel 22:18 - in the midst Daniel 11:35 - to try Romans 8:27 - And he 1 Thessalonians 2:4 - but God Hebrews 11:17 - when James 1:12 - when
Cross-References
Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live before you!"
Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.
Now Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised;
He added, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground before the whole assembled community of the Israelites.
Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?"
"Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!" But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.
He answered, "Truly I am the commander of the Lord 's army. Now I have arrived!" Joshua bowed down with his face to the ground and asked, "What does my master want to say to his servant?"
As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord 's messenger went up in it while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown to the ground.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold,.... Refiners of silver have their fining pots, in which they purify the silver from the dross; and goldsmiths have their crucibles to melt and purify their gold, by which assays of the worth and value of it may be made;
but the Lord trieth the hearts; there is no vessel, as Gersom observes, in which they can be put and tried by creatures; a man does not know, nor can he thoroughly search and try his own heart, and much less the hearts of others; God only knows and tries them, Jeremiah 17:9; The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it by way of similitude, "as the fining pot is for silver", c. as silver is refined in the pot, and gold in the furnace, so are the hearts of God's people, and their graces tried and purified by him in the furnace of affliction the variety of troubles they are exercised with are made useful for the purging away of the dross of sin and corruption, and for the brightening of their graces, 1 Peter 1:7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wonderful as is the separation of the pure metal from the dross with which it has mingled, there is something yet more wonderful in the divine discipline which purifies the good that lies hid, like a grain of gold, even in rough and common natures, and frees it from all admixture of evil. Compare Mal 3:2; 1 Peter 1:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 17:3. The fining pot is for silver — When silver is mixed, or suspected to be mixed, with base metal, it must be subjected to such a test as the cupel to purify it. And gold also must be purified by the action of the fire. So God tries hearts. He sends afflictions which penetrate the soul, and give a man to see his state, so that he may apply to the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, to destroy what cannot stand the fire, to separate and burn up all the dross.
