O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

You have examined my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and found nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; purify my being and my heart.

i1 [To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par O Jehovah, You have searched me and known me.

Search me, O Mighty God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties;

and find out if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way eternal.

And it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here am I.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, It is My people, and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them like gold and like silver, that they may draw near to Jehovah with an offering in righteousness.

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

that the testing of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found unto praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though something unheard of was happening to you;

For You are not a Mighty God that delights in wickedness; nor shall evil dwell with You.

The boastful shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all doers of iniquity.

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses those who plunder, whom Jehovah has spurned.

Your hand shall find out all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find out those who hate You.

These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are an abomination to his soul:

a heart that devises evil plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

My inheritance is to Me as a lion in the forest; it cries out against Me; therefore I have hated it.

I also cut off three shepherds in one month. And My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred Me.