1 Samuel 20:12

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

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, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

that the proof 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—

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

Give thanks to the God of gods; for his loving kindness endures forever.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

“Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!”

The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”

Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”

Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let’s go.”

Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.

Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers.

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”

Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.