3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.
Proverbs 17:3 Cross References - NHEB
1 Chronicles 29:17
17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
Psalms 26:2
2 Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
Psalms 66:10
10 For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
Proverbs 27:21
21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.
Isaiah 48:10
10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
Jeremiah 17:10
10 I, the LORD, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Zechariah 13:9
9 I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"
Malachi 3:2-3
2 But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is coming like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap.
3 And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the LORD offerings in righteousness.
1 Peter 1:7
7 that the genuineness of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
Revelation 2:23
23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the churches will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.