Psalms 17:3

David affirms that God has tested his heart and resolved that his mouth will not sin. It matters because it expresses a conscience clear before God and a commitment to righteous speech.

Cross-references · 28

• Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
• Ps 26:2Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
• Acts 11:23When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
• Ps 39:1For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
• Mal 3:2But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
• Ps 119:106I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.
• Prov 13:3He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
• Zech 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
• Jer 50:20In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
• Ps 66:10For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
• Ps 139:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
• 1 Pet 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.
• Hos 7:6For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
• 1 Sam 24:12May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you, but my hand will never be against you.
• Ps 44:17–21All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
• 1 Sam 26:23May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
• Ps 16:7I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.
• Job 24:14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
• Mic 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
• Acts 18:9–10One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.
• Ps 11:5The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
• Ps 7:4if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,
• Acts 16:9During the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
• 1 Sam 24:10Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’
• 2 Cor 1:12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
• Jas 3:2We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body.
• 1 Cor 4:4My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.
• 1 Sam 26:11But the LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. Instead, take the spear and water jug by his head, and let us go.”

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