Psalms 17:3

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“You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.”

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BSBPD

“You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 17:3 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’
  2. 1 Samuel 24:12May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you, but my hand will never be against you.
  3. 1 Samuel 26:11But the LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. Instead, take the spear and water jug by his head, and let us go.”
  4. 1 Samuel 26:23May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
  5. 1 Chronicles 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
  6. 1 Chronicles 29:17I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
  7. Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
  8. Job 24:14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
  9. Psalms 7:4if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
  10. Psalms 11:5The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
  11. Psalms 16:7I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.
  12. Psalms 26:2Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
  13. Psalms 39:1I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
  14. Psalms 44:17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
  15. Psalms 66:10For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
  16. Psalms 119:106I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.
  17. Psalms 139:1O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
  18. Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
  19. Proverbs 13:3He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
  20. Jeremiah 12:3But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
  21. Jeremiah 50:20In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
  22. Hosea 7:6For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
  23. Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
  24. Zechariah 13:9This third I will bring through the fire;I will refine them like silverand test them like gold.They will call on My name,and I will answer them.I will say, ‘They are My people,’and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

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