¹⁸ And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant.

²³ and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he ^(A)who searches mind and heart, and ^(B)I will give to each of you according to your works.

¹⁷ He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him ^(A)the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, ^(B)you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed ^(C)my sheep.

Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

²⁰ And what more can David say to you? ^(A)For you know your servant, O Lord God! ²¹ Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. ^22 (B)Therefore you are great, O Lord God. ^(C)For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ^23 (D)And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name ^(E)and doing for them^[a] great and awesome things by driving out before your people,^[b] whom ^(F)you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods? ^24 (G)And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O Lord, became their God.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, ^(A)“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, ^(B)but the Lord looks on the heart.”

³⁰ Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ^(A)‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ ^(B)but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.