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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

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Put me on trial, Lord, and cross-examine me.
    Test my motives and my heart.

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These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

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Let God weigh me on the scales of justice,
    for he knows my integrity.

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Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.

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Fire tests the purity of silver and gold,
    but the Lord tests the heart.

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I will bring that group through the fire
    and make them pure.
I will refine them like silver
    and purify them like gold.
They will call on my name,
    and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘These are my people,’
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’”

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Psalm 139

For the choir director: A psalm of David.

O Lord, you have examined my heart
    and know everything about me.

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20 O Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
you make righteous judgments,
    and you examine the deepest thoughts and secrets.
Let me see your vengeance against them,
    for I have committed my cause to you.

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“But who will be able to endure it when he comes? Who will be able to stand and face him when he appears? For he will be like a blazing fire that refines metal, or like a strong soap that bleaches clothes. He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross. He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold and silver, so that they may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the Lord.

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16 He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.

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