You have tested my heart;
You have visited me in the night;
(A)You have [a]tried me and have found [b]nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth shall not (B)transgress.

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  1. Psalm 17:3 examined
  2. Psalm 17:3 Nothing evil

Prayer for Wisdom and Forgiveness

To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

39 I said, “I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my (A)tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”

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10 But (A)He knows the way that I take;
When (B)He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

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(A)Examine me, O Lord, and [a]prove me;
Try my mind and my heart.

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  1. Psalm 26:2 test me

23 When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and (A)encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.

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that (A)the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though (B)it is tested by fire, (C)may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

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“But who can endure (A)the day of His coming?
And (B)who can stand when He appears?
For (C)He is like a refiner’s fire
And like launderers’ soap.

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I will bring the one-third (A)through the fire,
Will (B)refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
(C)They will call on My name,
And I will answer them.
(D)I will say, ‘This is My people’;
And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”

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God’s Perfect Knowledge of Man

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

139 O Lord, (A)You have searched me and known me.

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106 (A)I have sworn and confirmed
That I will keep Your righteous judgments.

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10 For (A)You, O God, have tested us;
(B)You have refined us as silver is refined.

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I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel;
My [a]heart also instructs me in the night seasons.

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  1. Psalm 16:7 Mind, lit. kidneys

The Lord (A)tests the righteous,
But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.

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Now (A)the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent; 10 (B)for I am with you, and no one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city.”

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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A (A)man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

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Woe to Evildoers

Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And [a]work out evil on their beds!
At (A)morning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.

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  1. Micah 2:1 Plan

They prepare their heart like an oven,
While they lie in wait;
[a]Their baker sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

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  1. Hosea 7:6 So with MT, Vg.; Syr., Tg. Their anger; LXX Ephraim

20 In those days and in that time,” says the Lord,
(A)“The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none;
And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found;
For I will pardon those (B)whom I preserve.

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(A)He who guards his mouth preserves his life,
But he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

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17 (A)All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back,
(B)Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
19 But You have severely broken us in (C)the place of jackals,
And covered us (D)with the shadow of death.

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or (E)stretched[a] out our hands to a foreign god,
21 (F)Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.

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  1. Psalm 44:20 Worshiped

For (A)we all stumble in many things. (B)If anyone does not stumble in word, (C)he is a [a]perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

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  1. James 3:2 mature

Paul’s Sincerity

12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in [a]simplicity and (A)godly sincerity, (B)not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 1:12 The opposite of duplicity

If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me,
Or (A)have plundered my enemy without cause,

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14 (A)The murderer rises with the light;
He kills the poor and needy;
And in the night he is like a thief.

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23 (A)May the Lord (B)repay every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed.

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