the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Proverbs 17:3
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A crucible for silver, and a smelter for gold,and the Lord is the tester of hearts.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests the hearts.
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts.
A hot furnace tests silver and gold, but the Lord tests hearts.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, But Yahweh tests the hearts.
As is the fining pot for siluer, and the fornace for golde, so the Lord trieth the heartes.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,But Yahweh tests hearts.
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Silver and gold are tested by flames of fire; our thoughts are tested by the Lord .
The crucible [tests] silver, and the furnace [tests] gold, but the one who tests hearts is Adonai .
The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.
Fire is used to make gold and silver pure, but a person's heart is made pure by the Lord .
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold; but the LORD tries the heart.
Gold and silver are tested by fire, and a person's heart is tested by the Lord .
A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace is for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.
Like as syluer is tried in the fyre and golde in the fornace, euen so doth the LORDE proue the hertes.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.
The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.
The fining pot is for siluer, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
As siluer is tryed in the fire, and golde in the furnace: so doth the Lorde proue the heartes.
As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
As siluer is preued bi fier, and gold is preued bi a chymnei, so the Lord preueth hertis.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Yahweh tries the hearts.
The fining-pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the Lord tests hearts.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests the hearts.
Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the Lord tests the heart.
The melting-pot is for silver and the hot fire is for gold, but the Lord tests hearts.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.
Fining-pot for silver, crucible for gold, but, he that trieth hearts, is Yahweh.
As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tries hearts.
A refining pot [is] for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts [is] Jehovah.
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 27:21, Psalms 26:2, Psalms 66:10, Isaiah 48:10, Jeremiah 17:10, Zechariah 13:9, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 3:3, 1 Peter 1:7, Revelation 2:23
Reciprocal: Genesis 22:1 - God Exodus 15:25 - proved Deuteronomy 8:2 - prove thee Judges 2:22 - prove Judges 3:1 - prove 1 Chronicles 28:9 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 32:31 - to try him Job 23:10 - he hath Job 28:1 - where they fine it Psalms 7:4 - If I Psalms 139:23 - know Proverbs 25:4 - General Jeremiah 6:29 - the founder Ezekiel 22:18 - in the midst Daniel 11:35 - to try Romans 8:27 - And he 1 Thessalonians 2:4 - but God Hebrews 11:17 - when James 1:12 - when
Cross-References
Abraham fell flat on his face. And then he laughed, thinking, "Can a hundred-year-old man father a son? And can Sarah, at ninety years, have a baby?"
Recovering, Abraham said to God, "Oh, keep Ishmael alive and well before you!"
Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all his servants, whether houseborn or purchased—every male in his household—and circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins that very day, just as God had told him.
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised. His son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised. Abraham and Ishmael were circumcised the same day together with all the servants of his household, those born there and those purchased from outsiders—all were circumcised with him.
Then he said, "I am the God of your father: The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face, afraid to look at God.
Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in front of the entire community, gathered in emergency session.
They threw themselves on their faces and said, "O God, God of everything living, when one man sins are you going to take it out on the whole community?"
He said, "Neither. I'm commander of God 's army. I've just arrived." Joshua fell, face to the ground, and worshiped. He asked, "What orders does my Master have for his servant?"
All the people saw it happen and fell on their faces in awed worship, exclaiming, " God is the true God! God is the true God!"
So I got up and went out on the plain. I couldn't believe my eyes: the Glory of God ! Right there! It was like the Glory I had seen at the Kebar River. I fell to the ground, prostrate.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The fining pot [is] for silver, and the furnace for gold,.... Refiners of silver have their fining pots, in which they purify the silver from the dross; and goldsmiths have their crucibles to melt and purify their gold, by which assays of the worth and value of it may be made;
but the Lord trieth the hearts; there is no vessel, as Gersom observes, in which they can be put and tried by creatures; a man does not know, nor can he thoroughly search and try his own heart, and much less the hearts of others; God only knows and tries them, Jeremiah 17:9; The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it by way of similitude, "as the fining pot is for silver", c. as silver is refined in the pot, and gold in the furnace, so are the hearts of God's people, and their graces tried and purified by him in the furnace of affliction the variety of troubles they are exercised with are made useful for the purging away of the dross of sin and corruption, and for the brightening of their graces, 1 Peter 1:7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wonderful as is the separation of the pure metal from the dross with which it has mingled, there is something yet more wonderful in the divine discipline which purifies the good that lies hid, like a grain of gold, even in rough and common natures, and frees it from all admixture of evil. Compare Mal 3:2; 1 Peter 1:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 17:3. The fining pot is for silver — When silver is mixed, or suspected to be mixed, with base metal, it must be subjected to such a test as the cupel to purify it. And gold also must be purified by the action of the fire. So God tries hearts. He sends afflictions which penetrate the soul, and give a man to see his state, so that he may apply to the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, to destroy what cannot stand the fire, to separate and burn up all the dross.
