◄ Proverbs 17:3 ►
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17
I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, which are present here, to offer willingly to you.

Psalm 26:2
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Proverbs 15:11
Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Proverbs 17:2
A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brothers.

Proverbs 27:21
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

Jeremiah 17:10
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Daniel 11:35
And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

Malachi 3:3
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.

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Commentaries
Matthew Henry's Commentary
17:1 These words recommend family love and peace, as needful for the comfort of human life. 2. The wise servant is more deserving, and more likely to appear one of the family, than a profligate son. 3. God tries the heart by affliction. He thus has often shown the sin remaining in the heart of the believer.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. God only knows, as He tries (Ps 12:6; 66:10) the heart.
Proverbs 17:2
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