You have (A)tried my heart, you have (B)visited me by (C)night,
    you have (D)tested me, and you will find nothing;
    I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

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What Is the Measure of My Days?

To the choirmaster: to (A)Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

39 I said, “I will (B)guard my ways,
    that I (C)may not sin with my tongue;
I will (D)guard my mouth with a muzzle,
    so long as the wicked are in my presence.”

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so that (A)the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes (B)though it is tested by (C)fire—may be found to result in (D)praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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23 When he came and saw (A)the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord (B)with steadfast purpose,

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But (A)who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For (B)he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.

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(A)Prove me, O Lord, and try me;
    test my heart and (B)my mind.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 26:2 Hebrew test my kidneys and my heart

And (A)I will put this third into the fire,
    and refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
(B)They will call upon my name,
    and (C)I will answer them.
(D)I will say, ‘They are my people’;
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

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(A)Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
    (B)he who opens wide his lips (C)comes to ruin.

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Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

139 O Lord, you have (A)searched me and known me!

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10 For you, O God, have (A)tested us;
    you have tried us as silver is tried.

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And the Lord said to Paul (A)one night in (B)a vision, (C)“Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10 (D)for I am with you, and (E)no one will attack you to harm you, for (F)I have many in this city who are my people.”

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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

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Woe to the Oppressors

(A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.

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For with hearts like an oven (A)they approach their intrigue;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

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20 In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, (A)iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for (B)I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

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106 I have (A)sworn an oath and confirmed it,
    to keep your (B)righteous rules.

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17 (A)All this has come upon us,
    though we have not forgotten you,
    and we have not been false to your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back,
    nor have our (B)steps (C)departed from your way;
19 yet you have (D)broken us in the place of (E)jackals
    and covered us with (F)the shadow of death.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God
    or (G)spread out our hands to (H)a foreign god,
21 (I)would not God discover this?
    (J)For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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I bless the Lord who (A)gives me counsel;
    in (B)the night also my (C)heart instructs me.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:7 Hebrew my kidneys instruct me

The Lord (A)tests the righteous,
    but (B)his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

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10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. (A)And some told me to kill you, but I spared you.[a] I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, (B)for he is the Lord's anointed.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 24:10 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew it [my eye] spared you

For (A)we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, (B)he is a perfect man, (C)able also to bridle his whole body.

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Paul's Change of Plans

12 For our boast is this, (A)the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity[a] and (B)godly sincerity, (C)not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:12 Some manuscripts holiness

(A)For I am not aware of anything against myself, (B)but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

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if I have repaid (A)my friend[a] with evil
    or (B)plundered my enemy without cause,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:4 Hebrew the one at peace with me

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