Psalms 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
BSB
ASV
Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;
KJV
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
They used to say about Poemen that when he was ready to go out to the meeting for prayer, he first sat by himself for an hour in self-examination, and then went.
Search me, O God, and know my heart. David is no accomplice with traitors. He has disowned them in set form, and now he appeals to God that he does not harbour a trace of fellowship with them. He will have God himself search him, and search him thoroughly, till every point of his being is known, and read, and understood; for he is sure that even by such an investigation there will be found in him no complicity with wicked men.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Peter 1:7so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
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Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your…
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because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
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Psalms 26:2Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
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Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
