Psalm 17:3
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3 You have tested my thoughts and examined my heart in the night.
You have scrutinized me and found nothing wrong.
I am determined not to sin in what I say.
Psalm 39:1
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Psalm 39
For Jeduthun, the choir director: A psalm of David.
1 I said to myself, “I will watch what I do
and not sin in what I say.
I will hold my tongue
when the ungodly are around me.”
Job 23:10
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10 “But he knows where I am going.
And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.
Psalm 26:2
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2 Put me on trial, Lord, and cross-examine me.
Test my motives and my heart.
Acts 11:23
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23 When he arrived and saw this evidence of God’s blessing, he was filled with joy, and he encouraged the believers to stay true to the Lord.
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1 Peter 1:7
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7 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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Malachi 3:2
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2 “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.
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Zechariah 13:9
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9 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.’”
Psalm 139:1
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Psalm 139
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
1 O Lord, you have examined my heart
and know everything about me.
Psalm 119:106
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106 I’ve promised it once, and I’ll promise it again:
I will obey your righteous regulations.
Psalm 66:10
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10 You have tested us, O God;
you have purified us like silver.
Psalm 16:7
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7 I will bless the Lord who guides me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
Psalm 11:5
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5 The Lord examines both the righteous and the wicked.
He hates those who love violence.
Acts 18:9-10
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9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision and told him, “Don’t be afraid! Speak out! Don’t be silent! 10 For I am with you, and no one will attack and harm you, for many people in this city belong to me.”
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Acts 16:9
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9 That night Paul had a vision: A man from Macedonia in northern Greece was standing there, pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us!”
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Micah 2:1
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Judgment against Wealthy Oppressors
2 What sorrow awaits you who lie awake at night,
thinking up evil plans.
You rise at dawn and hurry to carry them out,
simply because you have the power to do so.
Hosea 7:6
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6 Their hearts are like an oven
blazing with intrigue.
Their plot smolders[a] through the night,
and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire.
Footnotes
- 7:6 Hebrew Their baker sleeps.
Jeremiah 50:20
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20 In those days,” says the Lord,
“no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah,
for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
Proverbs 13:3
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3 Those who control their tongue will have a long life;
opening your mouth can ruin everything.
Psalm 44:17-21
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17 All this has happened though we have not forgotten you.
We have not violated your covenant.
18 Our hearts have not deserted you.
We have not strayed from your path.
19 Yet you have crushed us in the jackal’s desert home.
You have covered us with darkness and death.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,
21 God would surely have known it,
for he knows the secrets of every heart.
James 3:2
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2 Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way.
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2 Corinthians 1:12
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Paul’s Change of Plans
12 We can say with confidence and a clear conscience that we have lived with a God-given holiness[a] and sincerity in all our dealings. We have depended on God’s grace, not on our own human wisdom. That is how we have conducted ourselves before the world, and especially toward you.
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- 1:12 Some manuscripts read honesty.
Psalm 7:4
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4 if I have betrayed a friend
or plundered my enemy without cause,
Job 24:14
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14 The murderer rises in the early dawn
to kill the poor and needy;
at night he is a thief.
1 Samuel 26:23
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23 The Lord gives his own reward for doing good and for being loyal, and I refused to kill you even when the Lord placed you in my power, for you are the Lord’s anointed one.
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