Psalms 17:3

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

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

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

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

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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.

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

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

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.

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);

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

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

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.

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.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

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

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.

It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

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.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

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.”

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

“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.

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

Jonathan said to David, “By Yahweh, the God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you, and disclose it to you?

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.

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

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

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

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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 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 I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

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.

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.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.