Proverbs 17:3 Cross References - Coverdale

³ Like as syluer is tried in the fyre and golde in the fornace, euen so doth the LORDE proue the hertes.

¹⁷ I knowe my God, that thou tryest the hert, and that vnfaynednes is acceptable vnto the: therfore haue I geue all this with an vnfayned hert, eue with a good wyll, and now haue I had ioye to se thy people (which here are present) offre with a fre wyll vnto the.

² Examen me O LORDE, and proue me: trie out my reynes and my hert.

¹⁰ Thou hast brought vs in to captiuyte, and layed trouble vpon or loynes.

²¹ Syluer is tryed in the moulde, & golde in the fornace, & so is a man, whan he is openly praysed to his face.

¹⁰ Beholde I haue pourged the, and not for moneye. I haue chosen the in the fyre of pouerte,

¹⁰ Euen I the LORDE ripe out the grounde off the hert, ad search the reynes and rewarde euery ma acordinge to his wayes, and acordinge to the frute off his councels.

⁹ And the same thirde parte wil I brynge thorow the fyre, and will clense them, as the syluer is clensed: Yee and trye them, like as golde is tryed. Then shall they call vpon my name, and I wil heare them: I wil saye: it is my people. And they shal saye: LORDE, my God.

² But who maye abyde the daye of his commynge? Who shalbe able to endure, when he appeareth? For he is like a goldsmythes fyre, ad like wasshers sope. ³ He shall syt him downe to trye and to clense ye syluer, he shal pourge the children of Leui, and purifie them like as golde and syluer: that they maye brynge meatofferinges vnto the LORDE in rightuousnes.

⁷ that youre faith once tryed (beynge moch more precious then the corruptible golde that is tryed thorow the fyre) might be founde vnto laude, glory and honoure at the appearynge of Iesus Christ:

²³ And I wil kyll her childre with deeth. And all the cogregacios shal knowe, yt I am he which searcheth the reynes and hertes. And I wil geue vnto euery one of you acordynge vnto youre workes.