Proverbs 25:3

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

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

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

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.’ ”

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’ ”

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

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 run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

For his loving kindness is great toward us. Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise Yah!

Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

“ ‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

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 Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

“Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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—