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 23:10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.
• Ps 26:2Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
• Acts 11:23who, 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.
• Ps 39:1For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. 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.”
• Mal 3:2“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 launderer’s soap;
• Ps 119:106I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
• Prov 13:3He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
• Zech 13:9I 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.’”
• Jer 50:20In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel shall 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.
• Ps 66:10For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
• Ps 139:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
• 1 Pet 1:7that 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 —
• Hos 7:6For 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.
• 1 Sam 24:12May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.
• Ps 44:17–21All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
• 1 Sam 26:23Yahweh 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.
• Ps 16:7I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
• Job 24:14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
• Mic 2:1Woe 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.
• Acts 18:9–10The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
• Ps 11:5Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
• Ps 7:4if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
• Acts 16:9A 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.”
• 1 Sam 24:10Behold, 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.
• 2 Cor 1:12For 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.
• Jas 3:2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
• 1 Cor 4:4For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
• 1 Sam 26:11Yahweh 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 us go.”

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