Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}

The fining pot {is} for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, {and} to prove thee, to know what {was} in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known {me}.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It {is} my people: and they shall say, The LORD {is} my God.

But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he {is} like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it {are} the issues of life. {with...: Heb. above all keeping}

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known {me}.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

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.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Who can understand {his} errors? cleanse thou me from secret {faults}.

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

For his eyes {are} upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

The thoughts of the righteous {are} right: {but} the counsels of the wicked {are} deceit.

{That which} I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, {and} seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

How many {are} mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye {are} a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,

{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. {toward...: Heb. with thee}

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye {so} mock him?

Howbeit in {the business of} the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was {done} in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all {that was} in his heart. {ambassadors: Heb. interpreters}